Occupational exposure of dentists to electromagnetic fields produced by magnetostrictive cavitrons alters the serum cortisol level

Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-64

  Mortazavi, S M J ^a   Vazife Doost, S ^b   Yaghooti, M ^b   Mehdizadeh, S ^c   Rajaie Far, A ^d  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b RAFSANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cavitrons; Cortisol; Dentistry nurses; Dentists; Electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878302084     PISSN: 09769668     EISSN: 22297707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.95958     Document Type: Article

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