Innovative Pre-clinical Learning in Oral Surgery: Injection on Tomato-A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Abstract

Introduction: Before any patient handling, the third-year undergraduate learners should handle the injection on tomato to raise their confidence pre-clinically. Another advantage of this learning was learners can avoid needle prick injury in the initial learning stage. Also, they can learn single hand to aspirate during the injection technique. Tomato was used to reduce the "Red colour" fear of blood for the learners.

Aim of the study: To evaluate students' perception towards tomato injection activity in oral surgery.

Methodology: Quasi-experimental study was conducted on third-year BDS students from the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of a Dental Institute. All the third-year BDS Students were informed about the objective of the study and those who were willing to participate were invited to take part in the study. A written informed consent was obtained from the students, and ethical clearance was obtained from the Institutional Ethical Committee.

Conclusion: A simple activity like tomato injection can be easily done at the workplace. This is a potentially flourishing concept to accomplish self-confidence and enhance ability and preparedness for young learners to execute actual procedure in patients pre-clinically.