Original scientific paper
Effect of work on the body posture in dental team members
Enes Čatković
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Krešimir Kraljević
; Stomatološki fakultet, Sveučlište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Differences between two working process technologies during the working time of a DMD and his/her team were studied. The study sample consisted of 16 dental medicine teams from the Zagreb area. One half of the teams were working using the conditionally termed old technology (Tl), and the other half employed the new technology (Til). The aim of the study was to assess the extent to which the new technology elicited beneficial health-related effects on the team as a whole and on the working process in particular, as compared to the old technology. In particular sections of the process of work, differences were statistically significant, as shown by the results tabularly presented Comparison of the two study groups was also carried out. It appears noteworthy to mention that the new technology, and even this one used for comparison in this study, should be expected to contribute to better humanization, and higher economical and production quality of the working process which, in turn, might at the same time be one of the guidelines for future studies in dental medicine ergonomics.
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100881
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Publication date:
15.1.1990.
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