Dental bioaerosol as an occupational hazard in a dentist's workplace

• Autorzy: Szymanska J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Many-year studies on aerosols as an infection vector, despite their wide range, ignored dental aerosol. All procedures performed with the use of dental unit handpieces cause the formation of aerosol and splatter which are commonly contaminated with bacteria, viruses, fungi, often also with blood. Aerosols are liquid and solid particles, 50 μm or less in diameter, suspended in air. Splatter is usually described as a mixture of air, water and/or solid substances; water droplets in splatter are from 50 μm to several millimetres in diameter and are visible to the naked eye. The most intensive aerosol and splatter emission occurs during the work of an ultrasonic scaler tip and a bur on a high-speed handpiece. Air-water aerosol produced during dental treatment procedures emerges from a patient’s mouth and mixes with the surrounding air, thus infl uencing its composition. Because air contained in this space is the air breathed by both dentist and patient, its composition is extremely important as a potential threat to the dentist’s health. According to the author, insuffi cient awareness of health risk, working habits, and economic factors are the reasons why dentists do not apply the available and recommended methods of protection against the infl uence of bioaerosol and splatter. Behaviour protecting a dentist and an assistant from the threat resulting from the infl uence of dental aerosol cannot be limited to solated actions. The author, on the basis of the literature and own research, characterizes bioaerosol and splatter in a dental surgery and reviews a full range of protective measures against these risk factors.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

occupational hazard; risk factor; dental bioaerosol; dentistry; dentist workplace; bioaerosol

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
• Rocznik: 2007
• Tom: 14
• Numer: 2
• Opis fizyczny: p.203-207,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Szymanska J.

• Medical University of Lodz, Staszica 11, 20-018 Lublin, Poland

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