[Dentist's understanding on dental anesthesiology--on the basis of a questionnaire on post-graduation study]

We set out a questionnaire for 400 participants of the seminar, to investigate the thoughts of dental practitioners and dentists on duty with regard to the post-graduation study and training in particular, to dental anesthesiology. The results obtained were as follows. 1. Almost all of the dental practitioners felt necessary to receive the post-graduation study and training to brush up their techniques. 2. The dental practitioners felt defective in actual techniques prepared by post-graduation trainings now under way, and they desired a particular training in an actual technique specific to an emergency therapy. 3. Seminars for re-education they desired to attend were those related to anesthesia in majority, followed by prosthetics, maintenance and periodontosis, orthodontics, and surgery, implantodontics, and pedodontics. 4. Major curriculums of anesthesiology they desired to receive were systemic management, resuscitation, how to apply the first-aid medicine, and treatment for shock states. The number of those participants who desired to receive these curriculums was help or above of all members, followed by those in dental psychosomatic disease, treatment for senile patients and acupuncture anesthesia. 5. It was unexpected that those who had been aware of the concept of authorized dental anesthesiologist were confined to 54% of the participants. This led us to consider that clinical dentist should be re-educated regarding the system for authorized anesthesiologist. 6. Major participants answered nothing with regard to the advocated curriculums we questioned, so that it was postulated that none felt unsatisfactory of the advocated curriculums at present.