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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">542</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>GENERAL DENTIST__ampersandsign#39;S AWARENESS OF LASER APPLICATION IN DENTISTRY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.</surname><given-names>Bagheri</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S.</surname><given-names>Purkhamene</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>35</fpage><lpage>38</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of Ardabil general dentists about Laser applications in dentistry.&#13;
Methods and Materials: This is a cross sectional descriptive study that has been done on 87 general dentistis in Ardabil city. Data collected by a questinaire and then analyzed by statistical methods in SPSS.19.&#13;
Results: Of all dentists, 82(94.3%) pointed that only have heard something about Laser. 21 (24.1%) stated that have studies about Laser. Only 2 persons (2.3%) have practical and clinical usage of this method. 60 people (69%) had willing to participate&#13;
in training courses. The relationship between gender with dentists safity awareness wasn__ampersandsignrsquo;t significant.There are significant diffrencesin general and specializedknowledge between two gender (p=0.024, p=0.002).&#13;
Conclusion: Results showed that Ardabil general dentistis have lower awareness about laser, so raising awareness and informing about application of laser is essential.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Awareness</kwd><kwd> General dentists</kwd><kwd> Laser</kwd><kwd> Dentistry</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
