Hubungan Pemakaian High-Speed Bur Gigi dengan Gangguan Pendengaran pada Dokter Gigi di Kota X

Abstract

The objective of this study are 1) to know the relation of using high-speed dental drill with the hearing trouble to dentist; 2) to note the relation of length daily exposed with the hearing trouble on dentist; 3) to know the relation of the age with the hearing trouble on dentist. This study adopted a descriptive design using a cross-sectional method. The data collecting taken by conducting a measure to the hearing trouble by an audiometric tools and found a noise level intensity on the work place where the dentist always be dealing with the high speed bur. For the data analysis, it was processed under SPSS program, there applied a uni-variety and bi-variety in this case analyzed vvith a Chi-Square method in practically to study either found a relation between using a high speed bur or not with the hearing trouble to the dentists. The location of study held on city X covering 7 Puskesmas, 1 City hospital and 1 private hospital and still on a clinic for practicing. The result of study showed that : I) Noise level high-speed bur on city X having a noise intensity rate exceeding a threshold rate (NAB); 2) a significance result on its audiometric test between the length of expose with the hearing trouble on daily expose hours spent exceeding 4 hours each day; 3) no significance relation between the age with the hearing trouble; 4) no significance relation between the noise level I intensity with the hearing trouble. The efforts for controlling the noises recommended are as the following: I) protection by wear standard hearing Protection Tool - Hearing Protective Device set by dentist is in order to eliminate Noise Hazard; 2) self protection by having pause time of 15 - 30 seconds per patient; whereby the expose time of drill 14-45 minutes; 3) working shift on Puskesmas; 4) existing socialization NIHL and uses Hearing Protective Device by the PDGI