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Mechanism of Reported Percutaneous Injuries Among Dental Professionals, Washington State, 1995–2001. |
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| Job Category |
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| Activity |
Dental Assistant N (%) |
Dental Hygienist N (%) |
Dentist N (%) |
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| Total Mechanism |
667 (100.0%) |
161 (100.0) |
66 (100.0) |
| Cleaning Instrument |
160 (24.0) |
23 (14.3) |
- |
| Changing carpule |
125 (18.7) |
13 (8.1) |
5 (7.6) |
| Recapping |
118 (17.7) |
29 (18.0) |
13 (19.7) |
| Cape fell off while removing needle from syrenge |
57 (8.5) |
6 (3,7) |
4 (6.1) |
| Disposal related |
36 (5.4) |
3 (1.9) |
2 (3.0) |
| Unknown |
34 (5.1) |
5 (3.1) |
1 (1.5) |
| Dr hit |
29 (4.3) |
- |
- |
| Collision |
29 (4.3) |
4 (2.5) |
1 (1.5) |
| Preparing |
23 (3.4) |
6 (3.7) |
1 (1.5) |
| Local anesthetic injection |
21 (3.1) |
39 (24.2) |
22 (33.3) |
| Device left on table |
11 (1.6) |
1 (0.6) |
- |
| Injecting other than a local |
9 (1.3) |
8 (5.0) |
2 (3.0) |
| Unexpected jerk of patient |
6 (0.9) |
13 (8.1) |
3 (4.5) |
| Dental cleaning |
6 (0.9) |
8 (5.0) |
1 (1.5) |
| Surgery |
3 (0.4) |
- |
11 (16.7) |
| Blood Draw |
- |
3 (1.9) |
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Shah et al. BMC Public Health 2006 6:269 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-269 |
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