Análise da conduta dos cirurgiões-dentistas em relação aos resíduos sólidos de serviços de saúde nas unidades de atendimento integrado e estabelicimentos odontológicos privados da cidade de Uberlândia - MG

• Ano de defesa: 2003
• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Regina Maria Tolesano [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Dentists; Odontólogos; Saude e trabalho; Mercúrio; Uberlândia (MG); Resíduos odontológicos
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154673; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/15-01-2018/000228468.pdf

Some professionals also attribute this replacement to its toxicicity, due to the mercury present in the aloy. Dental professionals may be momentarily exposed to high levels of mercury during the manipulation, restoration, polishing and removal of restorations if adequate protection measures are not taken. Aiming to study this issue, a quantitive survey was carried out by means of a questionnaire. Thirty-three professionals working at the Integrated Assitance Units and private dental offices in the five Health Districts in the city of Uberlândia-MG were randomly interviewed. The analysis of data was carried out by frequency distribution through Epi Info 2002 software. Of the dental surgeons interviwed, 33.3% perform over 76 amalgam restorations a week, which means intense contact with mercury, and therefore, a need for greater care with its manipulation and destination. Little care has been taken with regards to the final destination of the waste material generated in the dental offices. Even when placed in appropriate containers there is no labeling with regards to biological hazard. Great part of dental surgeons (45.4%) still dispose of the material in conventional garbage bags, which are deposited in the dumpsite for home garbage. It has been verified that, despite biosafety advances, further education is still required and dental surgeons and their teams need to be made aware of mercury hazard in the working place