ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF FREQUENCY AND RISK FACTORS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER OF SPECIALIST DENTISTS OF BABOL DENTISTRY FACULTY

Musculoskeletal Disorder is one of the most prevalent damages of dentists that is
due to being in a unsuitable long time gesture and doing the same movement. Therefore, detection of
risk factors that can cause disorder and pain seems necessary. The aim of this study was to evaluate the
frequency and risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders in specialists in Babol Dentistry Faculty.
Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional study, 64 professors of Babol dental faculty fill
the Nordic questionnaire related to the frequency and risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders in year
2014 and then the data were analyzed with SPSS (18) and statistically analyzes using T-test and chisqure.
Results: Specialist dentists consisted of 29 male and 35 females. The mean of their ages was (38.16 +_
7.43). And 39(61.9%) people had pain in vertebral column and 24 ones (38.1%) were painless. The most
pain was in the neck and then the waist. And 97.4% of dentists who had vertebral column pain have
worked while sitting. The mean working of people who had pain was more than painless people
(p=0.04). There wasn’t any significant relation between age, gender, BMI and vertebral column pain
(P=0.5). The most amount of pain was in prosthodontics and the least was in periodontist.
Conclusion: Due to almost high frequency of vertebral column pain in specialist dentists, the necessity
of gesture correction in their work and education becomes of significance importance. In this study the
least risk factors of musculoskeletal disorder was the average time of their work.