Disease relevance of Dental Assistants

• A dental assistant had allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) caused by bisphenol A contained in dental composite resin (DCR) products based on epoxy dimethacrylate [1].

High impact information on Dental Assistants

• Thirty-two women reported exposure to ethylene oxide; unexposed dental assistants comprised the comparison group [2].
• BACKGROUND: Prompted by worsening asthma in a dental assistant with latex allergy and occupational asthma while under personal latex precautions, we confirmed continuing latex aeroallergen exposure [3].
• Contact allergy to benzalkonium chloride and glutaraldehyde in a dental nurse [4].
• Fatal methaemoglobinaemia in a dental nurse. A case of sodium nitrite poisoning [5].
• She and 2 dental nurses were allergic to aliphatic acrylates, including triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TREGDMA) and triethylene diglycol diacrylate (TREGDA) [6].

Anatomical context of Dental Assistants

• Following conditioning with dilute sulfuric acid which contained sodium sulfate (to be termed solution A) on one side of the mouth and etching with 37% phosphoric acid on the other, brackets were bonded on the maxillary and mandibular incisors of twenty dental nurse students [7].

Associations of Dental Assistants with chemical compounds

• No dental nurses could continue their occupation, but the dentist could occasionally handle DCR if wearing PVC gloves [6].
• PURPOSE: Kansas House Bill 2724 (HB 2724), which allows dental assistants to perform coronal scaling, was passed by the Kansas legislature in the spring of 1998 [8].
• The role of the dental assistant in mixing polyacrylate cement [9].
• Nitrous-oxide use. II. Risks, compliance, and exposure levels among Nebraska dentists and dental assistants [10].
• The maximum short-term exposure levels were 79 microg/m3 for 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and 15 microg/m3 for methyl methacrylate, similar in dentists and dental nurses [11].

Gene context of Dental Assistants

• Dental nurse registration with GDC [12].
• The new dental practice act in Texas: some ramifications for the practitioner. Part 2 Art. 4551e-1. Duties of the dental assistant [13].
• It appears that the gross fees and patient charges generated by the dental therapist in all four PDS practices fail to cover the cost of the salary of the dental therapist, dental nurse and associated overheads borne by the practice [14].
• The conclusion of the present investigation is that therapeutic jaw exercises, managed by a dentist or a dental assistant, is a cost effective treatment with a prognosis comparable to a treatment with an interocclusal appliance and can thus be recommended as the first therapy of choice in patients with TMD of mainly muscular origin [15].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Dental Assistants

• This paper describes a dental humanitarian mission, sponsored by the US Army Dental Command (DENCOM), to Honduras in 2003 and how expanded function dental assistants can increase the provision of dental care [16].

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