Hearing assessment in dental practitioners and other academic professionals from an urban setting

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Willershausen, Brita ^a   Callaway, Angelika ^a   Wolf, Thomas G ^a   Ehlers, Vicky ^a   Scholz, Lukas ^a   Wolf, Dominik ^a   Letzel, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audiometric determination; Dental practitioners; Hearing assessment; Urban setting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; DENTIST; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; DENTAL STAFF; DENTISTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84892472330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-10-1     Document Type: Article

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