The Development of Electronic Book “Dental Anatomy of Primary Teeth

Abstract

          This research aims to develop and study respondents' opinions on using the Dental Anatomy of Primary Teeth electronic books. In evaluating the data, researchers used arithmetic means ( ) and standard deviation (S.D.). Additionally, this research quality was evaluated by nine professional dentists. The evaluation was separated into two parts: form of electronic books ( = 4.61, S.D. = 0.55) and quality of illustration ( = 4.67, S.D. = 0.53).

            Moreover, the electronic books were given to 72 second-year dental students (84.70% of all). For this part, collecting has 3 parts. The first part was accessibilities, 52.73% of respondents were female, 88.89% use a tablet for reading electronic books, 98.44 % of respondents used IOS, and 76.39 % using Safari browser. The second part was the respondent's opinions in using the electronic book by using three aspects: illustration ( = 4.37, S.D. = 0.63), electronic books using ( = 4.30, S.D. = 0.69), and electronic books' formatting ( =4.15, S.D. = 0.60). Overall of the measurements were satisfying ( = 4.27, S.D. = 0.64 ). The last part is suggestions. The respondents suggested that electronic books should be able to download in PDF files for review while without an internet connection.