Guidelines in Preventive Healthcare Measures for Nurses and Dentists

The preventive health care measures were important in the practice of dentistry because dental nurses and dentists were exposed to a wide variety of health risk factors include physical, mechanical, chemical, biological and psychological. The international literature focused mostly on infection control and proper handling of potentially infected materials to prevent the transmission of microorganisms might include Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) also there was importance for the dental nurses and dentists to apply preventive health care measures to protect them against the risk of radiation, occurrence of eye injury, skin penetrating injury with a sharp instrument, the risks of the chemical disinfectants and how to ergonomically use the instruments and what are the measures used to reduce the work related stress or tension such as effective time management for the work demands and the workload.