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Hearing loss and the high speed dental handpiece.

Author(s) -

Howard H. Zubick,

Anagélica Tolentino,

Joseph W. Boffa

Publication year - 1980

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.70.6.633

Subject(s) - audiology , hearing loss , medicine , dentistry , noise induced hearing loss , noise (video) , pure tone , auditory fatigue , noise exposure , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)

A pure tone air conduction audiometric evaluation was administered to 137 dentists and 80 physicians. The physicians were found to have better hearing threshold levels, notably in the 4000HZ center frequency range. The left ear of right handed dentists showed a greater loss of hearing ostensibly related to proximity to the noise source. Dental specialists showed a loss pattern similar to those of the general dentists. The findings suggest that there may be a cause and effect relationship between hearing loss and use of the highspeed dental handpiece.

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