TY  - JOUR
T1  - Attitude And Practice Of Infection Control Protocol Among Dental Health Facilities
A1  - Hattan Mohammad Baismail
A1  - Ali Salem Alsalem
A1  - Osama Talha Hawsawi
A1  - Fayez Ghadeer Alanazi
A1  - Turki Saad Alfridy
A1  - Ahmed Salehm Alfadhel
A1  - Jalal Yousef Alghadeer
A1  - Abdulaziz Ahmed Alahmari
A1  - Omar Khalil Alshaikh
A1  - Shahzeb Hasan Ansari
JF  - Annals of Dental Specialty
JO  - Ann Dent Spec
SN  - 2347-2022
Y1  - 2020
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SP  - 92
EP  - 97
N2  - Introduction: The clinical staff should be trained and informed about the proper protocol concerning infection control to provide the patients with the safest possible dental care. Moreover, dental health care workers are at risk of catching infectious diseases as well.

Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the local health administration offices of various cities in Saudi Arabia. A total of nine cities including Jeddah, Makkah, Riyadh, Qasim, Abha, Arar, Tabouk, and Alsharqiyah were included in this study. Local health administration offices in each of the above-mentioned cities were visited by one of the study authors and conducted a brief interview with the manager.

Results: 87.5% of the included cities had more than 30 registered dental clinics, 50% reported to have more than 15 clinics having CBAHI, 75% cities reported to have registered dental assistants, 37.5% of them revealed that there were less than 5 registered assistants having bachelor’s degree or higher.

Conclusion: There is a need of recruiting qualified dental assistants in all cities as there is a difference among several cities.
UR  - https://annalsofdentalspecialty.net.in/article/attitude-and-practice-of-infection-control-protocol-among-dental-health-facilities
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