Occupational accidents in dental school: a 10-year retrospective - doi:10.5020/18061230.2009.p240

Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde

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Isabela Raquel de Araújo Ribeiro¹  Danilo Lopes Ferreira Lima¹  Viviane Maia Araújo¹  Ítalo Sarto Carvalho Rodrigues¹ 

[1] Universidade de Fortaleza;

关键词: Acidentes de Trabalho;    Estudantes de Odontologia;    Odontologia do Trabalho.;   

DOI  :  10.5020/1043

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Objective: To investigate occupational accidents that occurred during the first 10 years of Fortaleza University (UNIFOR) Dental School. Methods: A documental study based onsecondary data from the Notification Center of Occupational Accidents of UNIFOR Dental School, reported in the last 10 years. The variables included characteristics of the accidentsand of the injured, besides the type of instrument and the resulting injury. Results: Were recorded 160 occupational accidents divided by location, function of the injured and typeof accident. It was observed that 63.1% of cases occurred in the Multidisciplinary Clinic, 23.1% in the Integrated Clinic, 8.8% in the laboratories, 1.9% at home, 1.25% in theSurgical Center, 1.25% in the Material Sterilization Central and 0.6% during the training outside university. Concerning the injured, 90.6% of the victims were undergraduates, 5.0%staff, 3.8% teachers and 0.6% patients. Regarding the injury, 40.6% were penetrating bloody injuries, 11.9% cutting bloody injuries, 2.5% cutting non-bloody injuries, 5% burns, 5%penetrating bloody injuries/cutting bloody injuries, 2.5% were injuries with maceration, 1.9% injuries causing ocular trauma and 0.6% of an incident of dog bite. Conclusion: Itwas concluded that penetrating injuries were prevalent and these occurred mostly in the multidisciplinary clinic, where students of earlier periods of dental course work, indicatingthat the experience in dental practice generates more care with safety.

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