[Survey of general dental practitioners in Abidjan on the use of the operatory field in dentistry].

Autor: Avoaka-Boni MC; Odontologie conservatrice, U.F.R. d'Odonto-Stomatologie, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire., Gnagne-Koffi ND, Assoumou-Adou NM, Kouakou KF, Guinan JC, Abouattier-Mansilla EC
Jazyk: francouzština
Zdroj: Odonto-stomatologie tropicale = Tropical dental journal [Odontostomatol Trop] 2009 Sep; Vol. 32 (127), pp. 34-42.
Abstrakt: Rubber dam is a standard operatory field in operative dentistry and endodontics. It is undoubtedly the most certain way to insure the success of therapeutics acts. Its use by Abidjan practitioners has been the subject of our study which aim is to underline the place of rubber dam in daily practice. Our investigations show that rubber dam is totally absent from practitioners acts. Generally cotton rolls constitute the most frequent mean used by practitioners to isolate the tooth in operative dentistry and endodontics. Only 23.9% of them associate saliva sucking up. Some cases of aspiration and swallowing file by accident by patients have been highlighted. Those results lead us to recommend the systematic use of rubber dam as the mean of efficiency and security which cannot be ignored in our practice.
Databáze: MEDLINE