DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i02.039

Pages: 517-519

Today, with the development of technology, digital radiography has been as a choice against conventional radiography, and its use in dentistry has being increased continuously. This work was aimed to assess the knowledge and attitudes of general dentists about intraoral digital systems in Zahedan. In this cross-sectional study, the data of statistical population was collected by distributing standard questionnaires which were completed by 127 general dentists. To analyze the data, SPSS 19 software, statistical t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient were used. In results the awareness level of 52% of dentists in Zahedan was good, 29.9% of them had fair awareness level and the awareness level of 18.1% of them was poor. The attitude of 53.5 % of dentists was good, 41.8 %fair, and the attitude of4.7 % of general dentists was poor. In conclusion the results of this work showed that the knowledge and attitude of half of general dentists in Zahedan about intraoral digital radiography techniques were good. No significant relationship was found between demographic variables and knowledge and attitudes of dentists (p> 0.05).