Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Orthodontics is a specialty which
deals with the prevention and treatment of dental abnormalities and
deformities. According to the Unified State Requirements for training in the
specialty “Dental
Technician”, the discipline of Orthodontics has
a schedule of 180 academic hours. The devices included in the curriculum
are single-jaw and double-jaw and are produced with the help of dental phantom
heads and clinical models. The training in Dental Mechanics aims to enable
students to develop as specialists who are able to integrate their knowledge of
different disciplines and transform their skills into the necessary abilities
and habits for a successful dental practice. Our research aims to study the
students’ satisfaction with their training in Orthodontics during the Covid-19
pandemic. A
sociological method has been applied. Some of the questions are borrowed
from the questionnaire of the Central Commission for Quality at the Medical
University of Varna. The survey was conducted at the end of March 2022 and covered
78.50% of students who were studying or completed their studies in the
discipline (79% of second-year students and 78% of third-year students). The
majority of the respondents attended on a regular basis the lectures and the
dental practice activities held either in the online platform Blackboard or as
live training. It was estimated that the training in the electronic
environment, which was carried out in the Medical College of Varna due to the
pandemic, is adequate and effective in terms of theoretical and practical
training of students in the discipline.
Country : Bulgaria
IRJIET, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2022 pp. 139-144