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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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Ergonomics in Dentistry - A Review
KB Shilpashree1, C Jyothi1, T Ramakrishna2
1 Department of Public Health Dentistry, The Oxford Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre, Bommanahalli, Bangalore-560068, India
2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, The Oxford Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore, India
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ERGONOMICS is a way to work smarter-not harder by designing tools, equipment, work stations and tasks to fit the job to the worker--NOT the worker to the job. It is a perfect balance between job characteristics and human capabilities.
Ergonomics is multidisciplinary and requires knowledge in three main areas that is anatomy and physiology, psychology and technology, so a system has to be designed which should lead to less of fatigue, discomfort, injury or chronic health disorders. A system in dental practice, which brings about this change, is Dental Ergonomics. |
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