Purpose: Assess prevalence of self-reported hearing difficulties among experienced dental
hygienists who have been practicing for a minimum of 20 years and explore the relationship …

Purpose. The purpose of this case-control study was to determine whether long-term
ultrasonic noise exposure via the dental office environment is related to dental hygienists' …

The purpose of this study was to record and compare audiometric pure tone thresholds of
dental clinicians (DCs), dental professionals (DPs), and dental students (DSs); determine …

Screening of dental staff nurses for noise induced hearing loss. Problems/objectives: The
effect of noise on employees of dental clinics is debatable. The purposes of this study were …

Introduction Extended exposure to high-speed handpieces and other noise-intensive
devices might put dentists at risk for possible hearing impairment. The aim of this study was …

Materials and Methods: First, measures were collected of sound pressure levels produced
by dental handpieces and dental suction in the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences …

Is the technology any better today than it has been? Without question, there have been
improvements in the past five years that enable hearing aids to better fit noise-induced …

Introduction: In the dentistry practice, dentists are exposed to harmful effects caused by
several factors, such as the noise produced by their work instruments. In 1959, the American …

OBJECTIVE: Hearing impairment (HI) remains a problem among dentists Hearing loss at
speech frequencies was recently reported among dentists and dental hygienists. This study …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the noise levels made by different clinical
hand-pieces, laboratory engines, and other significant equipment such as ultrasonic scalers …