Comparative Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Alginate Impression Materials for Partially and Fully Dentulous Cases among Dental Students

The questionnaire was distributed to students visiting department of prosthodontics at vspm dental college and research centre, Nagpur to 3rd year, final year & interns to evaluate their knowledge and practice of alginate impression material .the data was collected and statistically analyzed. And data revealed that final year showed the higher percentage and the difference between them and students of 3rd year was statistically significant (pgreater than0.05) while the difference between intern and 3rd year was statistically non-significant (pless than0.05). From above data, it is concluded that academic assessment should be done to increase the knowledge during training courses. Thus, more efforts to be made in this aspect to get benefits.