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What Promotes Joy
Published in Eve Shapiro, Joy in Medicine?, 2020
In my role as the executive director, I’d say I’m the big-picture thinker and the person who’s mainly responsible for hiring and making organization policies. I have to think expansively what it’s like for a dental technician to come in and do their job, and I have to both imagine and observe what it’s like as a patient to walk through the door and encounter the treatment environment. What do those two people need around them to make sure that interaction goes well?
Contact Urticaria and Eczema from Dental Products
Published in Ana M. Giménez-Arnau, Howard I. Maibach, Contact Urticaria Syndrome, 2014
As mentioned previously, the incidences of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) have increased within the past several decades.[4,12] This has resulted in long-lasting sick leaves of affected employees and a dramatic rise of medical care and rehabilitation costs.[3] In dental occupations, the frequency of ACD has been estimated to be about 1%.[8] A more detailed analysis has identified dentists and dental technicians to be most affected. Among dentists, about 4% were found to have serious occupationally relevant allergic reactions.[11] Most common were sensitizations to (di)methacrylates and latex/rubber gloves (each about 2%). Among dental technicians, in general, a similar frequency is considered for (meth)acrylate sensitization. However, within the group of dental technicians with suspected occupational skin disease, ACD was diagnosed in up to 64%.[4,12]
Evaluation of burnout and stress perception levels of Turkish dental laboratory technicians according to affecting factors during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2023
Sibel Dikicier, Cumhur Korkmaz, Arzu Atay, Mert Dogukan Yilmaz
A total of 152 (98.7%) participating dental technicians were included in the cross-sectional analysis, with consideration of completed surveys. Table 1 shows the participation rates of the demographic variables included in the study. While 56.6% of the participants were aged <35 years and 15.8% were >45 years. Of these, 60.5% were males and 39.5% were females. No significant differences were detected in the income levels of the participants. In terms of educational level, associate degree graduates represented the majority, with 93 participants (61.2%). The most important demographic data in this study were work experience and working hours. The proportion of participants with 15–25 years of working experience was higher in the total study. The working hours of all participants were similar.
Impact of machining process on the flexural strength of CAD/CAM blocks for dental restorations
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2020
Aurélie Benoit, Hiba Issaoui, Nicolas Lebon
Thanks to the advent of CAD/CAM technology in dental practice and to the increased bonding strength of adhesives, dentists can now offer to their patient new types of restorations (inlays, onlays, overlays, veneers) with reduced dimensions, complex shapes and diverse materials (composites and ceramics) in order to preserve healthy tissues as much as possible. Dentists and/or dental technicians follow four steps to make a restoration using CAD/CAM technology (Tapie et al. 2015):Intraoral scan of the patient's prepared toothComputer-aided design (CAD) of the prosthesis using dedicated softwareComputer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and numerically controlled milling of the prosthesis.Finishing: sandblasting and/or acid etching of the basal surface for adhesive infiltration; polishing and glazing of the external surface for aesthetic and biological requirements.
Skin reactions to latex in dental professionals – first Croatian data
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2019
Iva Japundžić, Liborija Lugović-Mihić
The respondents included second-year, fourth-year and sixth-year students (n = 143) of the Zagreb School of Dental Medicine and dental professionals (dentists, dental assistants, dental technicians) (n = 301). The second-year students were the control group because they had not had previous occupational exposure to latex products, unlike fourth-year and sixth-year students and dental professionals who had been exposed to potential allergens/irritants over a long period. Of the students involved in the research, 33 were in their second year of studies, 69 in their fourth year and 41 in their sixth year. Of the 301 dental professionals, 261 were dentists, 37 were dental assistants and 3 were dental technicians.