In the field of ergonomics applied in dentistry one of the most discussed theme is the working posture of the dentist.
The ergonomics applied in dentistry focuses on the practitioner and his team as the most important resource of the practice. The optimal therapeutic approach and the success of practice involve special working conditions for the dentist and his team in an ergonomic environment. The practice of dentistry involves laborious high finesse dental preparations, precision and control in executions that require a particular attention, concentration and patience of the dentist and finally the dentist’s physical and mental resistance. The risk and perspective of the musculoskeletal disorders related to unbalanced postures should determine the dentists take postural corrective actions and compensation measures in order to limit the negative effects of working in a bad posture. The ideal posture of a dentist gives him, on the one hand the optimal working conditions (access, visibility and control in the mouth) and on the other hand, physical and psychological comfort throughout the execution of the clinical acts.Īlthough the theme of dentist posture is treated with great care and often presented in the undergraduate courses and the continuing education courses on ergonomics in dentistry, many dentists do not know the subject well enough nor the theoretical issues and therefore nor the practical applicability. This article discusses the posture adopted by dentists when they work, beginning with the balanced posture and going to different variants of posture. The meaning of the posture in ergonomics is the manner in which different parts of the body are located and thus the reports are established between them in order to allow a special task execution.
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