Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objectives: To determine the frequency of diff erent work related musculoskeletal disorders among dentists.Methods and materials: This cross sectional survey was conducted in diff erent public and private sectors dentistry setups using convenient sampling. In this study the data was collected from 450 dental professionals using NORDIC questionnaire and a structured proforma. Dentist with any history of fractures and surgery were excluded from the study. The data was entered and analyzed using SPSS 25. Chi-square test was used for testing the association between musculoskeletal disorder and diff erent study variable. P-value of 0.05 and less has been considered as significantResults: Among 450 dentists 236(52.4%) were male and 214(47.6%) were female. Mena age of male were 37.08±9.27 whereas mean age of female was33.43±10.42years. Among the dentist 393(87.3%) have musculoskeletal disorder. Among these 393 subjects 388(86.22%) have pain; 124(31.6%) have Mild, 122(31.0%) have moderate and 142(36.1%) have Severe Pain. Pain was found in Hand among 28(6.2%), in Wrist among 52(11.6%), in Fore Arm among 9(2.0%), in Upper Arm among 20(4.4%), in Shoulder among 314(69.8%), in Neck among 210(46.7%), in Upper Back among 20(4.4%), in Middle Back among 163(36.2%) and in Lower Back among 226(50.2%).Conclusion: Overall Shoulder, neck and lower back pain was frequent respectively among dentists but wrist and middle back pain was statistically signifi cantly higher among female. Musculoskeletal disorder aff ects the workability of dentists as well as socioeconomically. Therefore it is suggested that there should be knowledge and practice based workshops should be conducted to address this issue.
Language: English
Subfield: General Dentistry
Field: Dentistry
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4385168644