Adverse effects on dental surgeons? health and its correlations with motor equipment use / Efeitos adversos na saúde de cirurgiões-dentistas e suas correlações com o uso de equipamentos motores

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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This study aimed to identify adverse effects reported by dental surgeons (DS) and correlate them to the use of motor equipment. We carried out a non experimental cross-sectional research with quantitative data analysis. The study involved 247 DS who work in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. A self-applied questionnaire was used to assess the professionals. This instrument consisted of four parts, asking sociodemographic questions, questions about reported (muscle-skeletal, nervous and vascular) adverse effects, professional practice and questions related to motor equipment use. Data were analyzed through distribution (frequency) measures, bivariate analysis (chi-square and Fisher?s exact test) and multivariate analysis (logistic regression). Within the described undesirable effects, the ones these professionals considered most intolerable are pain (67.65%), movement range limitation (7.84%) and paresthesia/tingling (6.86%). The most affected body regions were neck, shoulders and right superior limbs, corresponding to 76.8% of complaints. The reported predictors statically significant for the undesirable effects on hands were gender (RC = 0,513, p = 0,056) and pause between appointments (RC = 0,514, p = 0,022). These professionals most frequently used high-speed rotating equipment (94.7%), followed low-speed rotation equipment with contra-angle (82.2%) and low-speed rotation equipment with a straight piece (62.8%). Although the symptoms these professionals present are characteristic of exposure to vibrating motor equipment, these symptoms are not sufficient to confirm that motor equipments cause damage to health and are factors of risk to the occurrence of RSI and WMSD. The results of this study offer important support to the consciousness of the Dental Surgeon about his(er) practice and the need to care of his(er) health and raises questions that can give rise to further research by the multidisciplinary team on the worker?s health.

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equipamentos motores dental surgeons adverse effects cirurgiões dentistas rsi and wmsd motor equipment ler e dort efeitos adversos

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