ArticleHead & face medicine2014
Hearing assessment in dental practitioners and other academic professionals from an urban setting.
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- Are dental hygienists at risk for noise-induced hearing loss? A literature review.Canadian journal of dental hygiene : CJDH = Journal canadien de l'hygiene dentaire : JCHD · 2021Review
- Noise Disturbance and Potential Hearing Loss Due to Exposure of Dental Equipment in Flemish Dentists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Hearing Assessment of Dental Personnel: A Cross-sectional Exploratory Study.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2020Article
- Assessment of occupational noise-related hearing impairment among dental health personnel.Journal of occupational health · 2020Article
- Dental Environmental Noise Evaluation and Health Risk Model Construction to Dental Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
- Assessment of noise intensity in a dental teaching clinic.BDJ open · 2017Article
- Occupational Health Problems among Dentists in Croatia.Acta stomatologica Croatica · 2016Article
- An exploratory study of noise exposures in educational and private dental clinics.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2016Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
introductionExtended exposure to high-speed handpieces and other noise-intensive devices might put dentists at risk for possible hearing impairment. The aim of this study was to determine the hearing ability of dentists and other scientists for comparison.
methodsAfter approval by the ethics committee, 115 subjects (dentists and other academic professionals as controls) of both genders were enrolled in the study. Exclusion criteria were colds, ear-blockages or abnormal hearing-thresholds. An audiometric determination (Oscilla USB audiometer, AudioConsole 3, Inmedico A/S, Denmark) was performed in the frequency range of 125 Hz to 8 kHz for both ears. Anamnestic data and number of years in the profession were assessed using a questionnaire. Differences between groups were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney-U-test.
resultsData from 53 dentists and 55 other academic professionals (69.4% male, 30.6% female) with a mean age of 51.7 ± 9.6 years and similar gender distributions in both groups were analyzed. The audiometric tests for the right and left air conduction showed that the hearing of dentists tended to be slightly more impaired than in the control subjects. For the frequencies 3 kHz and 4 kHz these differences were statistically significant for both ears. In contrast, no significant differences were found in this range for bone conduction.
conclusionsHearing impairment in dentists was slightly higher than in controls. Although other factors like environmental noise exposure were comparable for both groups, occupational exposure to high-speed handpieces and other noisy devices can be an additional burden for the hearing.
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