Kap Survey on The Awareness of Dental Insurance

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Priyan.I, Palati Sinduja, Lakshmi.T. A

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Introduction : Nowadays, every person has to visit a dentist at least twice every six months to get their teeth checked. The IRDAI in August, 2018 said that the dental treatments will be a part of health insurance preferences for medical and dental plans. The way dental insurance is structured, including the use of annual maximum benefits and aim of the study is to make awareness about dental insurance


Material and methods : The sample size used for the study is 100. A self structured questionnaire is being prepared and uploaded in Google forms. Survey statistics were used in our study.


Results : In our study 77.31% of people are aware of dental insurance. In our study 41.18% of people came to know about dental insurance through a friend from dentistry, 40.34% by insurance company and 18.49% by newspaper. p-value: 0.05 ,(p<0.05)]. Hence statistically significant. 


Conclusion : To raise dentists' knowledge regarding dental health insurance, more dentist awareness initiatives, such as seminars, lectures, or forums, educational articles, and discussions, are needed.

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