A Study to Evaluate the Musculoskeletal Disorder among Dentists in Sri Ganganagar City, Rajasthan

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders among dentists have been significant for many years. It affects the health and longevity of the working population. Therefore it is necessary to identify the occurrence of common musculoskeletal disorders among dentists. So that necessary prevention and precaution can be taken and thereby manage them. Method: Questionnaire was distributed among all the dentist of Sriganganagar city which has four parts. Part1 consisted of demographic information of the dentist such as name, age, gender, height, weight and speciality. Part 2 was work related data about number of working days, working hours per day, number of patient per day, time taking for each patient, break time for each patient, feeling discomfort while taking patient, total working time per week and awareness of ergonomic chair. Part3 consisted of work related tools used like air driver/rotator, precision hand instrument and regular hand instrument. Part 4 was body parts affected by musculoskeletal disorder like neck, shoulder, elbows, wrist/hand, upper back, lower back, hip, knees, foots/ankle, eyes fatigue. Result: Results showed that most of the dentists suffered from MSD's and the parts of body affected were varied according to the types of work and tools used. Conclusion: The result suggested that the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder among the dentist was high in this city. The common parts of the body affected were eyes, neck, shoulder, upper back and lower back