%0 Journal Article
%T The Role of Teledentistry in Postgraduate Dental Training During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia
%A Baian Yasser Azzawi
%A Renad Abushanab
%A Rana Nadeem
%A Dalia Almotairi
%A Manal Alghtani
%A Othman Wali
%A Shanthi Vanka
%A Amit Vanka
%J Annals Journal of Dental and Medical Assisting
%D 2021
%V 1
%N 1
%P 1-8
%X Despite the exceptional circumstances brought on by the coronavirus epidemic, access to dental care remains a major challenge. To solve the issue, unconventional methods like teledentistry might be useful. Measurement of postgraduate dental students' knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and teledentistry behaviors during the COVID-19 epidemic in Saudi Arabia is the goal of this study. Utilizing a valid self-administered questionnaire, 102 (69 male, 63 female) postgraduate dental students participated in a cross-sectional descriptive survey utilizing an online Google Form to evaluate their knowledge, awareness, attitudes, and practices of teledentistry. The chi-square test and frequency distribution descriptive statistics are used to evaluate the correlation between categorical variables. IBM-SPSS (Version 25, Armonk, NY, USA) was used to analyze the data. Among the 102 research participants, 79% had previously heard of teledentistry, 69% were aware of it, and 70.5% had never utilized it before the COVID-19 epidemic. The majority of responders wish to perform teledentistry soon. There was no statistical difference between gender and telemedicine questions, except for the considerably larger proportion of females than males who stated that teledentistry may be used in any dentistry (P = 0.020). Findings show that postgraduate dental citizens in Saudi Arabia had adequate knowledge and awareness about teledentistry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, there was not a significant distinction in the age and telemedicine items, with the exception that significantly higher respondents in the age group 31-36 participated in a lecture or course about teledentistry (P = 0.016). The study participants accepted that COVID-19 would allow dental education on the Internet as the best option (P = 0.034). 
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