Bibliographic citations
Paredes, G., (2013). Ruido ocupacional y niveles de audición en el personal odontológico del servicio de Estomatología del Centro Médico Naval Cirujano Mayor Santiago Távara, 2013 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/3081
Paredes, G., Ruido ocupacional y niveles de audición en el personal odontológico del servicio de Estomatología del Centro Médico Naval Cirujano Mayor Santiago Távara, 2013 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/3081
@misc{renati/478349,
title = "Ruido ocupacional y niveles de audición en el personal odontológico del servicio de Estomatología del Centro Médico Naval Cirujano Mayor Santiago Távara, 2013",
author = "Paredes Salcedo, Gisela Maribel",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2013"
}
-- The dental community is exposed to various occupational hazards, noise-induced hearing loss is definitely one of them because the staff works daily for prolonged periods of time using noisy instruments. PURPOSE: To determine the relationship between hearing level and occupational noise in dental personnel. -- MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-two individuals were evaluated, including 36 dentists, 14 interns and 32 dental assistants from Stomatology Department from the Naval Medical Center Cirujano Mayor Santiago Távara “CMST“ who agreed to participate in the study with informed consent, in accordance with inclusion criteria were surveyed, otoscopy and tympanometry, all subjects were required had sampled after this audiometry was performed and recorded the noise level in decibels produced in dental using a standardized sonographer. RESULTS: The 40% of the population has Sensorineural hearing loss and acoustic trauma, noise measured outside the permissible limit in clinics representing 72%. The 100% of the population does not use hearing protection while working. Ooccupational noise is associated with the occurrence of hearing loss and acoustic trauma (p <.05). There is a relation between acoustic trauma and hearing level in dental personnel (p <0.001). There is moderate correlation between acoustic trauma and years of clinical service dental personnel (p <0.001). There is a difference between the presence of hearing loss and the number of years of service (p <0.05). It states that an individual exposed to occupational noise outside the permissible limit have 3,252 times (p <0.05) higher risk of hearing loss and acoustic trauma. CONCLUSIONS: There is a relationship between occupational noise and hearing level in dental personnel. There is a relation between acoustic trauma and hearing loss in dental personnel, correlation between the presence of acoustic trauma and years of clinical service and the difference between the presence of hearing loss and the number of years of service. -- KEYWORDS: Occupational Noise, Hearing, sensorineural hearing loss, noise-induced hearing loss, dental, audiometry
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