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Analysis of Dental Professionals’ and Dental Students’ Care for their Skin

OBJECTIVES: To determine prevalence of undesirable, work-related skin lesions and their localizations in dental professionals and students, and to collect data about diagnostic procedures they undergo and skin care they take when these lesions occur. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Our research included 444 r...

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Autores principales: Japundžić, Iva, Novak, Dario, Kuna, Matea, Novak-Bilić, Gaby, Lugović-Mihić, Liborija
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034004
http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc52/1/7
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Novak, Dario
Kuna, Matea
Novak-Bilić, Gaby
Lugović-Mihić, Liborija
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Novak, Dario
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Novak-Bilić, Gaby
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description OBJECTIVES: To determine prevalence of undesirable, work-related skin lesions and their localizations in dental professionals and students, and to collect data about diagnostic procedures they undergo and skin care they take when these lesions occur. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Our research included 444 respondents (dentists, dental assistants, dental technicians, dental students) who filled out a questionnaire. They were asked to specify if they had observed any lesions on their skin and where; if they had undergone any treatments and in what way; if they had undergone any allergy tests; and if they had taken any protective measures. RESULTS: Of all the respondents that took part in the survey, 249 (56.1%) reported undesirable skin reactions commonly on their hands and fingers (96%). Before our survey, only 15% of them had seen a dermatologist, while 33% had undergone allergy tests (without a dermatologists’ clinical examination). Also, 45% of them sometimes used soaps for sensitive skin and the majority (61%) of them used protective hand creams 1-2 times per day. CONCLUSION: Although a large number of dental professionals and students have noticed work-related skin lesions, only some of them sought dermatologists’ professional help and most of them did not take care of their skin adequately when those lesions occurred. According to the results of this study, it is necessary to take additional preventive measures to increase dental professionals’ and students’ awareness of occupational dermatoses and adequate skin care.
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spelling pubmed-60507472018-07-20 Analysis of Dental Professionals’ and Dental Students’ Care for their Skin Japundžić, Iva Novak, Dario Kuna, Matea Novak-Bilić, Gaby Lugović-Mihić, Liborija Acta Stomatol Croat Original Scientific Papers OBJECTIVES: To determine prevalence of undesirable, work-related skin lesions and their localizations in dental professionals and students, and to collect data about diagnostic procedures they undergo and skin care they take when these lesions occur. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Our research included 444 respondents (dentists, dental assistants, dental technicians, dental students) who filled out a questionnaire. They were asked to specify if they had observed any lesions on their skin and where; if they had undergone any treatments and in what way; if they had undergone any allergy tests; and if they had taken any protective measures. RESULTS: Of all the respondents that took part in the survey, 249 (56.1%) reported undesirable skin reactions commonly on their hands and fingers (96%). Before our survey, only 15% of them had seen a dermatologist, while 33% had undergone allergy tests (without a dermatologists’ clinical examination). Also, 45% of them sometimes used soaps for sensitive skin and the majority (61%) of them used protective hand creams 1-2 times per day. CONCLUSION: Although a large number of dental professionals and students have noticed work-related skin lesions, only some of them sought dermatologists’ professional help and most of them did not take care of their skin adequately when those lesions occurred. According to the results of this study, it is necessary to take additional preventive measures to increase dental professionals’ and students’ awareness of occupational dermatoses and adequate skin care. University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, and Croatian Dental Society - Croatian Medical Association 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6050747/ /pubmed/30034004 http://dx.doi.org/10.15644/asc52/1/7 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 License.
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