Work-related vision hazards in the dental office

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-4

  Szymańska, Jolanta ^a,b  

^a Annals of Agric and Environ Med   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dentistry; Eye; Occupational hazards

Indexed keywords

CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTACT URTICARIA; DENTAL FACILITY; DENTISTRY; FATIGUE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LASER; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SKIN ALLERGY; VISION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHENOPIA; DENTAL MATERIALS; DENTISTRY; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; LASERS; LIGHT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 1642633532     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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