Table 1.
Professional Characteristics of Participating Dentists
| N | % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Consultation Region (n=322) | ||||||
| Mount-Lebanon | 177 | 55.0 | ||||
| Beirut | 65 | 20.2 | ||||
| South (including Nabatiyeh) | 42 | 13.1 | ||||
| Bekaa | 35 | 10.9 | ||||
| North | 3 | 0.9 | ||||
| Primary dental qualification (n=318)* | ||||||
| Lebanon | 192 | 60.4 | ||||
| Other countries | 126 | 39.6 | ||||
| Years in practice (n=314)* | ||||||
| < 1-5 years | 21 | 6.7 | ||||
| 5-10 years | 43 | 13.7 | ||||
| > 10 years | 250 | 79.6 | ||||
| Specialty (n=309)* | ||||||
| General practitioner | 134 | 43.4 | ||||
| Oral surgeon | 33 | 10.7 | ||||
| Endodontic | 30 | 9.7 | ||||
| Implant surgeon | 28 | 9.1 | ||||
| Pediatric dentist | 22 | 7.1 | ||||
| Orthodontist | 21 | 6.8 | ||||
| Restorative Dentist | 12 | 3.9 | ||||
| Prosthodontics | 15 | 4.9 | ||||
| Periodontics | 9 | 2.9 | ||||
| Other | 5 | 1.6 | ||||
| Postgraduate qualification (n=315)* | ||||||
| None | 134 | 42.5 | ||||
| Master’s degree | 114 | 36.2 | ||||
| University Diploma | 49 | 15.6 | ||||
| PhD | 18 | 5.7 | ||||
| Country where postgraduate qualification was obtained (n=169)* | ||||||
| Lebanon | 132 | 78.1 | ||||
| Western Europe | 23 | 13.6 | ||||
| Eastern Europe | 8 | 4.7 | ||||
| USA | 5 | 3.0 | ||||
| Egypt | 1 | 0.6 | ||||
| Practice setting (n=322) | ||||||
| Private Clinic | 308 | 95.7 | ||||
| Private Hospital | 1 | 0.3 | ||||
| Public Hospital | 1 | 0.3 | ||||
| Mixt | 12 | 3.7 | ||||
| Continuing education source (n=314)* | ||||||
| None | 13 | 4.1 | ||||
| National conferences | 154 | 49.0 | ||||
| National and international conferences and continuing education lectures | 99 | 31.5 | ||||
| International conferences | 33 | 10.5 | ||||
| Continuing education lectures | 15 | 4.8 | ||||
| Guidelines followed for prescribing prophylaxis regimens for infective endocarditis among susceptible patients (n=315)* | ||||||
| Do not know | 103 | 32.7 | ||||
| Guidelines provided during dental qualification years | 84 | 26.7 | ||||
| American Health Association (AHA) | 73 | 23.2 | ||||
| Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé (Afssaps) | 33 | 10.5 | ||||
| National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) | 21 | 6.7 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 0.3 | ||||
| Attending at least 1 lecture relating to the use of antibiotics in dental medicine during the past 5 years (n=316)* | 154 | 48.7 | ||||
| Reading at least 1 journal article relating to the use of antibiotics in dental medicine during the past 5 years (n=314)* | 157 | 50.0 | ||||
| Min | Max | Median | IQR | Mean | SD | |
| Number of patients per week (n=233) | 10 | 240 | 48.00 | 30.00 | 53.71 | 35.81 |
| Number of prescribed systemic antibiotics courses per week (n=260) | 0 | 100 | 5.00 | 7.00 | 8.80 | 11.73 |
| Frequency of antibiotic prescription per dental consultation (%) (n=274) | 0 | 100 | 10.00 | 12.50 | 17.51 | 18.32 |
*
Valid percentages are reported, Min: minimum; Max: maximum; IQR: interquartile range; SD: standard deviation