A pilot study of measurement of the frequency of sounds emitted by high-speed dental air turbines

• Published in: Journal of Oral Science Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 189 - 192
• Main Authors: Altinöz, H. Cenk, Gökbudak, Ramiz, Bayraktar, Aydin, Belli, Sema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Nihon University School of Dentistry 2001
• Subjects: Dental High-Speed Equipment - adverse effects; Dental Instruments; Dentists; frequency; hearing loss; Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced - etiology; high-speed dental air turbines; Humans; Multivariate Analysis; Noise, Occupational - statistics & numerical data; Pilot Projects; Sound Spectrography

Since the development and use of the high-speed dental air turbine some 45 years ago, concern has been expressed in the literature about a possible cause and effect relationship between use of the drill and hearing loss in dentists. The hearing threshold in humans varies with the frequency of sound....