Awareness and Practices of Dental Care Waste Management Among Dental Practitioners In Chennai City
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Awareness and Practices of Dental Care Waste Management Among Dental Practitioners In Chennai City
Bio medical wastes have become a very important source of spreading infections in the society. Hospitals are supposed to be seat of healing, but have become a seat of infection. This is true when it comes to hospital acquired infections which are a frequent picture in those hospitals where health care waste is not managed appropriately.1 Hospital waste is not only infectious but also hazardous ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Contemporary Dentistry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2278-2680,2279-0217
DOI: 10.5005/jcd-1-1-15