Dentists’ awareness toward vaccine preventable diseases

A study of knowledge and practice regarding Hepatitis B among nursing students attending tertiary care hospitals in Agartala city

“…Each item with the correct answer was given 1 (one) with a maximum score of 22 and wrong answer 0 (zero) with a minimum of 0 (zero). The knowledge part had been scored into three categories, that is, poor (0-7), average (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14) and good (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). The participants were asked to complete the questionnaire without leaving any un-attempted or incomplete questions, which were relevant.…”

Environmental and gloves' contamination by staphylococci in dental healthcare settings

“…How ever, it seems likely that routine glove change between patients and cleaning/disinfection of clinical contact surfaces could be sufficient to control such a risk for infection, but to be sure that these simple methods are applied, it is nec essary that the overall level of knowledge and awareness among dental healthcare workers is improved, perhaps through specific Continuing Medical Education courses, as issues regarding infection control are generally neglected among dental healthcare workers 29 .…”

Prevalence of reactive tuberculin skin test in dental healthcare workers and students

“…Such a case could not occur nowadays since almost all dental healthcare wrokers use masks and other protective barriers and, if af fected by active TB disease, are prevented from working. This situation is common with many other infectious diseases 8,9 . A dentist with ac tive pulmonary TB disease who treated at least 450 patients, including 60 children, during the period elapsed between the appearance of the first symptoms and the final active TB diagno sis, did not transmit M. tuberculosis to any of his patients probably because he wore mask routinely 10 .…”