• Ö Okumuş and Z Z Yurdabakan.
• Department of Oral and Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Altınbaş University Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Niger J Clin Pract. 2023 Nov 1; 26 (11): 165916661659-1666.

BackgroundMisconceptions are learning deficits that may cause clinical judgments in a dental practice to be made incorrectly.AimThis study aimed to identify and look into students' misconceptions regarding Oral Diagnosis and Radiology.Materials And MethodsThe fourth and fifth-grade students at the Altınbaş University Faculty of Dentistry were given a self-administered questionnaire that included multiple-choice questions about Oral Diagnosis/Medicine and Radiology. 106 students participated in the questionnaire and 50.9% of the participants were fourth-grade students, 49.1% of them were fifth-grade students. The questions were classified into two parts: five scenario-based questions and ten knowledge-based questions. Students' replies were evaluated for accuracy and confidence, and when a student was certain of giving an inaccurate response, misconceptions were noted. Two groups were compared using the Mann-Whitney-U test (P = 0.05).ResultsA total of 1590 responses were collected. Regarding the question type, scenario-based questions had more misconceptions (19.6%) than knowledge-based questions (18.4%). Depending on the question, the majority of misconceptions were seen in the questions about denture stomatitis (46.2%) and radiographic contrast (38.7%).ConclusionsTo prevent misdiagnosis, it is essential to recognize and overcome misconceptions in Oral Diagnosis/Medicine and Radiology. Therefore this study assists students and lecturers in defining misconceptions and organizing precautions to avoid and fix them.Copyright © 2023 Copyright: © 2023 Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice.

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