OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of workplace violence in Oral healthcare centres against Nigerian dental professionals. METHODS A questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey of 175 randomly selected dental professionals working in Oral healthcare centres of University Teaching Hospitals in Southern Nigeria was conducted. RESULTS The survey response rate was 78.9%. The respondents were ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the degree of perception of laypersons, dental professionals, and dental students regarding dental esthetics in cases with mandibular central incisor extraction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a smile photograph of a person with normal occlusion and all teeth, modifications were made to reflect the extraction of a mandibular incisor of various compositions and sizes. For th...

Aim: To determine the knowledge of dental professionals in India regarding the management of hazardous dental waste and actual practices followed by them. Material and method: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted as a survey of Indian dental professionals. A selfadministered questionnaire was designed to determine the knowledge and practices on hazardous dental waste and knowledge ...

Occupational noise is unavoidably produced from dental equipment, building facilities, and human voices in the dental environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of occupational noise exposure on the dental professionals' health condition. The psychoacoustics approach noise exposure assessment followed by the health risk assessment was carried on at the paediatric denti...

OBJECTIVE To compare the awareness of provisions of consumer protection act among dental and medical professionals in Udaipur city, Rajasthan, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross sectional study, a total of 448 professionals (253 males, 195 females) belonging to dental (222) and medical (226) categories were surveyed using a self administered structured questionnaire. The questionnaire co...

This study was carried out to determine the level of attractiveness of anterior open bites (AOB) and reverse overjets of varying severity. A sample of 180 non-dental students (101 females and 79 males; average age 20 +/- 0.75 years) and 45 dental professionals (12 females and 33 males; average age 35.5 +/- 5.07 years) was asked to complete a questionnaire to rate the level of attractiveness of ...

Aim: To assess the knowledge of dental ethics and jurisprudence among professionals. Background: Ethics is study ideal human character conduct in circumstances when a distinction between right wrong should be made. Dental set legal regulations forth by each state's legislature describing limitations related to practice dentistry. Materials methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional survey...

BACKGROUND The dental professional may see pediatric patients who have signs of intraoral trauma, perioral trauma or both. Evaluation should include the possibility of nonaccidental, deliberately inflicted abuse. Reporting such injuries is mandated. METHODS The authors reviewed the criminal and civil statutes in all 50 states to determine what role dental professionals are required to play in...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the expressed levels of career satisfaction of three groups of comparable dental healthcare professionals, working in Trinidad, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. METHODS Three questionnaire surveys were carried out of comparable dental healthcare professionals. Dental nurses in Trinidad and dental therapists in the UK and New Zealand. Question...