Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: causes, outcomes and re-employment

Brown, Judith; Burke, F. J. T.; Macdonald, Ewan; Gilmour, Heather; Hill, Kirsty; Morris, Alexander; White, Deborah; Muirhead, Elaine; Murray, Kathleen

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.813

Cited by 61 publications

(50 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The quantitative fi ndings from a questionnaire distributed to dentists who had taken IHR have previously been presented. 12 The objectives of the present paper were therefore, by means of interviews of ill health retirees:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects

et al. 2010

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects

et al. 2010

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Sir, further to our article one year ago regarding the first dental aid unit in a Greek refugee camp, 1 we are pleased to report that the charity has gone from strength to strength and is now known as 'Health Point Foundation' .…”

Section: One Year Onmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1 As occupational physicians (OP), it was disheartening to read that 92% of respondents who did not receive occupational health (OH) input would have liked to have been offered this service. Furthermore, only 28% of respondents were offered OH advice before ill health retirement, despite over 90% of respondents feeling that their ill health was work-related.…”

Section: An Underestimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oral cancer: A point to chew upon

Sharma¹,

Nagpal²

2017

Br Dent J

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Moreover, Blanc et al [16] found out that at different dental treatment units muscle activities and the joint angles assumed vary with the type of occupational posture. As a result, there is evidence that musculoskeletal disorders and the pain caused often constrain the work of dentists and orthodontists [1, 17, 2] or even force them to retire early on grounds of occupational disability [18, 19]. Muscular dysbalances and the resulting disorders develop primarily due to poor occupational posture [12, 20, 21].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Restricted posture in dentistry – a kinematic analysis of orthodontists

Ohlendorf

Erbe

Hauck

et al. 2017

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

BackgroundThis study aims at identifying orthodontic activities with the highest frequency of unfavorable/awkward and static postures held over a period of more than 4 s based on kinematic analysis. Moreover, a separate analysis of static postures for orthodontic and non-orthodontic activities serves to evaluate the duration for which these particular postures are assumed.MethodsIn total, 21 (13f/8 m) orthodontists (age: 31.5 ± 3.8 years) participated in this study. CUELA, a personal measurement system, was used to collect kinematic data for all orthodontic activities in a working day. Angle values of the head and torso were evaluated in accordance with ergonomic standards. Only those postures that were held statically for 4 s and longer were selected for further analysis. Alongside the kinematic analysis, the activities performed on-site were also subject to a detailed computerized analysis. The synchronization of data collected from both measurements arranges the patterns of posture found chronologically and in conjunction with the orthodontic activities performed ((I) “treatment” (II) “office” and (III) “other activities”).ResultsFor (I) we observed an anterior inclination of the head and torso area as well as a twist of the head and neck area to the right. We found anterior back inclination and lateral back torsion to the right for (II) and (III). If, furthermore, we differentiate the duration of static postures, there are primarily short to medium-term (4–30s) static postures identified for (I). Also, categories (II) and (III) predominantly demonstrate static back postures with a duration of up to 30 s. With regard to (II) we observed that the back is ventrally inclined for 10.1% of the total activity duration.ConclusionsDuring treatment static strains are observed in the entire head and torso area. On the contrary, static postures prevalent in the torso area are essential for activities of the other categories, particularly office work. These findings allow for a careful selection of unfavorable and static postures for each of the activities performed and help to develop specific preventive measures.

show abstract

Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: causes, outcomes and re-employment

Cited by 61 publications

References 23 publications

Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects

Dental practitioners and ill health retirement: a qualitative investigation into the causes and effects

Oral cancer: A point to chew upon

Restricted posture in dentistry – a kinematic analysis of orthodontists

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About