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K Hellgren

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PubMed1994

Use of gloves among dentists in Sweden--a 3-year follow-up study.

150 community dentists and 200 private general dental practitioners in southern Sweden were asked about the frequency of glove use in dental practice and related issues. This was a 3-year follow-up study. 76% of the community GDPs and 29% of the private GDPs used gloves regularly in all patient treatment. The group consisted mostly of female and younger dentists. Dentists never using gloves at all were older, male private practitioners. Difficulties to adjust using gloves and mostly non-risk-clientele were the two main reasons for dentists not to use gloves regularly. Skin complaints related to glove use seems to have increased from 1988 to 1991. Cross-infection-risk by HIV from patient was assessed as low although the main reason for most dentist to use gloves regularly was the contemporary debate about AIDS and HIV in media.

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PubMed1990

Use of gloves among dentists in Sweden.

This study among 191 public and private dentists in the Malmöhus County of southern Sweden showed that 77% of the community dentists (n = 167) and 54% of the private dentists (n = 24) used gloves regularly as infection precaution during extraction. For surgery these figures were 90% and 54% respectively. These were low figures considering the several general recommendations from both the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare and local community authorities to dental personnel to use gloves regularly during procedures with known risk of blood contact. The survey showed that 61% (n = 167) of the public dentists and 4% (n = 24) of the private dentists used gloves regularly during all patient treatment. High cost for gloves was no major obstacle for not using them regularly but rather discomfort and old habits (79% of the answers). 21% of the dentists had experienced local infections of their hands due to patient contact, puncture wounds being the most common cause. Most of the dentists using gloves had been influenced by the general HIV/AIDS discussion in news media (65%; n = 114).

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