Assessment of the risk of glove puncture during oral surgery procedures

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-21

  Burke, F J T ^a,b   Baggett, F J ^a,c   Lomax, A M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY DENTAL HOSPITAL OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Restorative Dentistry   (United Kingdom)

^c Oral Health and Development   (United Kingdom)

^d Oral Medicine and Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORAL SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURGICAL GLOVE; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURGERY, ORAL; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030185313     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(96)80372-6     Document Type: Article

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