A study of awareness and preference for oral scanner of dental hygiene students

In recent years, instead of traditional impression methods, have been developed and used as digitalized clinical methods in which computers and machines are responsible for using an oral scanner.

A questionnaire survey were conducted on 116 dental hygiene students who agreed to the study by using the self-filling questionnaires method to change awareness and preference before and after oral scanner use. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 19.0 program.

The most important step in the dental practice area is to reproduce the shape of the oral cavity to create a replicate model, which should be accurately impression of the oral condition, and should be satisfied at the same time with less inconvenience and time saving.

In comparison with before use of the oral scanner, it was found that the awareness improved, the treatment process became easier, the oral scanner was more favorable to the use of the oral scanner, and the oral scanner was more effective than the conventional impression I thought it would be correct. People who thought that managing the model before using the oral scanner was not more comfortable and did not care about getting the patient's attention thought that it would be uncomfortable before using the oral scanner. In other words, the preference of oral scanner differs according to recognition difference.

This study confirmed the awareness and prediction inconvenience of dental hygiene students’ oral scanner. These results can be used as basic data in the field of dental hygiene education and digital dental education.