Muskuloskeletal disorders among dental surgeons at selected private dental hospitals in Dhaka city

Abstract

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 96 dental surgeons at selected private dental hospitals in Dhaka city (North). The objective of the study was to find out musculoskeletal disorders within dental surgeons at selected private dental hospitals in Dhaka city during the period between September to November 2012.Convenient sampling technique was used and information was gathered by face to face interview with a pre tested semi structured questionnaires. Among the respondents, 43.8% were of in the age group of 36 -40 years age, 18.8% were in the age group of up to 35 years, and 13.5% were in the age group of 41 -45 years and 19.8% in the age group of over 50 years. The 67.7% were male and 32.3% were female respondents. By professional educational level 36.4% were Bachelor in Dental surgery and 63.5% were post graduated. . Among the respondents 79.2% who had professional experience more than 10 years missing in practice due to MSD more than 29.2%who had professional experience more than 10 years or less. The reduction and prevention of MSDs among dental surgeons should include their education and awareness regarding the importance of work related risk factors.

Risk and Exposure of Musculoskeletal Disorders among Dental Surgeons Working in Dhaka City

“…Regarding job related characteristics it was found that the mean professional experience, the mean practicing hours per week were 12.6 (±5.1) years, with range 6 -32 years, 46.5 (±13.5) hours, with range 21-96 hours respectively and average number of patients attended per day was 10 (±4.9) with range 3 -30 patients, which was close to the study findings by Batham et al [8] The current study result shows that 63.9%, 47.3% of the participants reported pain and discomfort in at least one body region in the last 12 months and the last 7 days respectively, quite higher prevalence observed in at least one body region in the past 12 months in different studies like 79% (n=2166) in Gupta et al [9] , 83.1% (n=213) in Saxena et al [10] , 86.8% in KiHun et al [11] , 92% in Batham et al [8] . In comparison to present study much higher prevalence of MSDs among the dental practitioners in past 12 months observed in different countries study like America (76.0%) [12] , India (78.0%) [13] , Australia (87.2%) [14] , Poland (92.0% ) [15] , Brazil (65.6%) [16] , Saudi Arabia (77.9%) [17] and in Bangladesh a study by Jahan et al [18] found that 90.0% dental practitioners were suffering from musculoskeletal pain during work in last 3 months. The overall prevalence of MSDs in dentistry differs from 63 -93 % worldwide.…”