Awareness On Noonan Syndrome Among Dental Students

Abstract

Background:Noonan syndrome is a disorder that involves unusual facial characteristics, short stature, heart defects present at birth, bleeding problems, developmental delays, and malformations of the bones of the rib cage.Noonan syndrome is caused by changes in one of several autosomal dominant genes.

Aim:To Evaluate the level of awareness and to create awareness about noonan syndrome and its oral manifestation among dental students

Materials and Methods: An online study was conducted among the general population of Chennai using Google forms .The study was conducted in March-May 2020 .A total of 100 individuals attended the Survey consisting of 20 questions. The results were analysed using SPSS software, Chi square test was done with p value set as 0.05 as level of significance. and were depicted as pie charts and bar graphs.

Results: According to the findings of this research, the majority(57%) of them were not aware of noonan syndrome which was found to be statistically significant p 0.007(p>0.05) . And in correlation with the year of study most of the 2nd , 3rd and 4th year students are aware about the syndrome

Conclusion:within the limits of the study ,the results of this survey show that the majority of the questioned subjects were not aware about the noonan syndrome , its clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment .