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J Dent Educ. 70(10): 1089-1097 2006
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Milieu in Dental School and Practice

Injury Reports in a Dental School: A Two-Year Overview

Richard S. Callan, D.M.D.; Frank Caughman, D.M.D., M.Ed.; Michael L. Budd

Key words: dental injuries, clinical, nonclinical, bloodborne exposures, benchmarks

Submitted for publication 03/15/06; accepted 07/07/06

As teaching institutions, it is vital for dental schools to collect data on accidental injuries to identify potential problems, improve the quality of care of patients, and educate future practitioners about risk management. Our data reveal important trends concerning such injuries. These data were compiled over a two-year period (2001–03) from accident reports at one dental school. We categorized the accidents as follows: source (instrument causing the injury), recipient of injury, time of day, location within the dental school where the injury occurred, and body part injured. The population examined in this study consisted of predoctoral and postdoctoral dental students, staff, faculty, and patients of the dental school. The majority of injuries occurred in the predoctoral clinic toward the middle to the end of the scheduled clinic periods. The instrument most likely involved was a needle, and the body part most commonly injured was a finger. The collection and analysis of injury data may be used to identify trends that will aid in the prediction and prevention of these injuries and, at a national level, serve as a benchmark that other dental schools can employ to assess their relative frequency of injury.




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