ABSTRACT
A questionnaire on office apparel was answered by 928 of the 2000 women dentists surveyed. The most surprising aspect of this study is that only 51% of all the women surveyed feel the need to wear some type of lab coat or uniform for infection control. Women dentists who do wear a lab coat over street clothes do so primarily for the enhancement of their professional image. Women dentists reporting the highest gross incomes were more likely to wear only street clothes (P = .01) in the office. This study suggests that the dichotomy of dressing for success and dressing for infection control is an issue that needs to be addressed by the profession. Guidelines would be especially helpful for the majority of women dentists who are currently in their first years of practice.
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Clothing , Dentists, Women , Adult , Age Factors , Attitude of Health Personnel , Chi-Square Distribution , Female , Humans , Income , Middle Aged , Protective Clothing , Self Concept , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
An episode of non occupational lead intoxication observed in the four members of family is described. While three of them had only biochemical signs of abnormal lead absorption, the remaining subject presented the serious clinical features of plumbism. The source of intoxication was contaminated wine. The importance, for diagnostical and medico-preventive purposes, of a possible non occupational absorption of lead is stressed.
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Food Contamination , Lead Poisoning/etiology , Wine/poisoning , Adult , Female , Humans , Lead Poisoning/diagnosis , Lead Poisoning/genetics , MaleABSTRACT
In order to find, inside the same vibration syndrome, likely differences of the pathology due to the different technological features of the vibrating tools, 42 forestry workers have been compared with 168 mine workers. No significant differences have been noticed, as concerns both osteoarticular lesions and photopletismography study of peripheral blood circulation; in mine workers a prevalence of lesions of the nail-folds capillaries has been noticed, according to the authors dependent on the higher energy of the vibrations brought out boring-machines.
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Bone Diseases/etiology , Joint Diseases/etiology , Occupational Diseases/etiology , Vascular Diseases/etiology , Vibration/adverse effects , Adult , Arm/blood supply , Bone Diseases/diagnosis , Humans , Joint Diseases/diagnosis , Middle Aged , Mining , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Occupations , Syndrome , Vascular Diseases/diagnosisABSTRACT
The susceptibility of hemoglobinic iron to oxidation in the ferric form by action of numerous industrial substances, suggested the use of metHbemia dosage in biological monitoring of professional exposure to such substances. In order to have useful reference values, the metHbemia of 975 male workers, from various parts of Sardinia, was measured at least 12 hours after last work shift. 95% of the examined population had metHbemia values lower than 0,86% of total Hb; such result has been compared with other normal values, found in literature and likely causes of the differences between such values have been discussed. On the basis of our results and on the examination of literature an intervention prospectus is suggested for biological monitoring of exposure to methemoglobinising substances.
