Objective: The purpose of this study is the evaluation of awareness level and attitude response
for a sample representing Egyptian parents towards emergency management of permanent tooth
avulsion for children via questionnaire methods.
Materials and methods: A 400 parents who had a children aged between 6 to 12 years attended
at the Pediatric Dentistry clinic, Faculty of Dentistry, Modern Sciences and Arts University, Cairo,
Egypt. The questionnaires were distributed among this sample to evaluate the knowledge level and
attitude response among those parents toward emergency management of avulsed permanent tooth.
Results: The result in this study did reveal that 17.5% of the parents had previous information
about the emergency management of the avulsed permanent tooth, and 42.8% believed in the
possibility of replantation of the avulsed permanent tooth, 19.2% of them could replant the tooth
by themselves. 38% of parents reported the necessity of immediate replantation, 37.4% did select a
saline as suitable cleaning and 45% reported saline as the suitable transport media.
Conclusion: Egyptian parents do lack the most knowledge needed for proper management of
avulsed permanent tooth, that is common in all levels regardless the difference in gender, education
level and geographic background.