Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology

The Korean Society of Environmental Health and Toxicology (환경독성보건학회)
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Dental Hygienists' Knowledge on Dental Amalgam Mercury and Its Treatment Practice

치과위생사의 치과용 아말감 수은에 대한 지식 및 행위

  • Shin, Kyoung-Hee (The Graduate School of Public Health Yonsei University) ;
  • Yang, Ji-Yeon (Institute for Environmental Research, College of Medicine, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kwon, Ho-Keun (Preventive Dentistry, Yonsei University College of Dentistry) ;
  • Shin, Dong-Chun (Institute for Environmental Research, College of Medicine, Yonsei University)
  • 신경희 (연세대학교 보건대학원) ;
  • 양지연 (연세대학교 의과대학 환경공해연구소) ;
  • 권호근 (연세대학교 치과대학 예방치학교실) ;
  • 신동천 (연세대학교 의과대학 환경공해연구소)
  • Published : 2007.09.30
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Abstract

This study was performed with the questionnaire survey on mercury knowledge and mercury exposure avoidance behavior, which was conducted among 1076 dental personnel in September, 2004. As for the factors effecting the mercury knowledge, it seems that they are closely related with the personnel's educational backgrounds, and their understandings of causing environmental hazardousness in the dental offices. And also, the factors effecting the behavior of mercury exposure avoidance are strongly connected with the knowledge points on mercury, the knowledge of air states in the dental clinic offices, the use of pincettes and gloves in squeezing, and rubber dam and gloves in mulling, the experience of environmental education on mercury, etc. In the survey, the higher points in mercury knowledge is closely related with the higher points in the behavior of mercury exposure avoidance. Nevertheless, the very fact that the lower points in the behavior among personnel takes on the aspect of the relatively higher points in knowledge on mercury may be understood that the generally acquired knowledge on mercury cannot be the critical factor of the behavior of mercury exposure avoidance.

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