Dentist's office represents an area with high infectious risk both for workers and patients. With our study we tried to analize the relationship between dentists and prevention. We studied 104 dentists who had to answer to a questionnary composed by 25 questions on topics such as job management, risk perception, measures adopted for prevention and knowledge about normatives regarding safety at work. From the amswers we can conclude that dentists know the risk present in their work and use correctly the individual preventive dispositives; make blood control to test hepatitis markers, in particular HCV. But only 68% made HBV vaccination. Many dentists,even if they know the way of trasmission of HIV, avoid to cure positive patient.
Risk perception in a group of dentists from abruzzo|Percezione del rischio in un gruppo di odontoiatri abruzzesi
Forcella L.;Boscolo P.;Di Giampaolo L.
2007-01-01
Abstract
Dentist's office represents an area with high infectious risk both for workers and patients. With our study we tried to analize the relationship between dentists and prevention. We studied 104 dentists who had to answer to a questionnary composed by 25 questions on topics such as job management, risk perception, measures adopted for prevention and knowledge about normatives regarding safety at work. From the amswers we can conclude that dentists know the risk present in their work and use correctly the individual preventive dispositives; make blood control to test hepatitis markers, in particular HCV. But only 68% made HBV vaccination. Many dentists,even if they know the way of trasmission of HIV, avoid to cure positive patient.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
