Case study: level of awareness, insight and behavior of dentist and the sick to the remedial effect of medicinal drop “dentol”

Background & Aim: In recent years, complementary therapies deliver a medicinal drop named ‘dentol’ for pain controlling and tooth infection. According to the excessive consumption of chemical drugs and their side effects, the subject of human health and its development in society and the level of awareness, insight and positive behavior of people and also dentists as the trustees of the society toward the usage of dentol and its demand for consumption and prescription of this drug is of great importance. Experimental: This study was a kind of cross-sectional using a survey method and questionnaire. Its validity and reliability was measured according to content accreditation, test-retest and Alpha Cronbach. The sampling method in first population (habitant of Khoramabad) was multistage cluster and in second one (dentists of Khoramabad) was polling because of some limitations. The descriptive-statistical and analytical-statistical (χ2, correlation coefficient etc) methods were used. Results & Discussion: Samples taken from people showed that their awareness from dentol was very low (59.8 %) and it is why most of them have no special insight to it (74.1%). Most of them use chemical painkillers for alleviation (75.5%). Dentists prescribed chemical drugs for their sick mostly (71.1%) and 87.1% of them never prescribed dentol for tooth infect. According to the findings, the awareness level of people to this drug is low and just few of them use it. In dentists having medium awareness and more positive insight to it, prescribe it a little.      Industrial and practical recommendations: Advertising and giving information to people and encouraging them to use natural drugs for introducing and promotion of awareness level of dentists and people is very important.