Lubna Pasha, Huma Farid, Mehreen Riaz Faisal.
Dental professionals experience regarding sharp injuries during practice.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(3):455-9.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of dental professionals regarding sharp injuries, working in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. A cross-sectional study of 180 dentists was conducted. The participants answered a self-administered questionnaire. Associations between the sharps injury and practicing information were assessed using the chi square test and the logistic regression analysis (OR, CI 95%, p ≤ 0.05). Participants receiving sharp injury during work are 63.9% but 49.1% reported the incident. Needle stick injuries were 42.6% and palm were affected in 80.9% cases. Dentists belonging to 30-40 years of age were 3.4 times more likely to experience sharps injury. Dentists in teaching hospital and private clinics were less likely to experience sharps injury as compared to those working in hospital setting (OR= 0.10 and OR= 0.13 respectively). Threat to injury is always there but following standard operational procedures and reporting is the key to overcome these incidents.

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