Work-related ocular events among Nigerian dental surgeons.

Objective: Daily clinical activities in dental operatory expose dental surgeons to varied forms of ocular events. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of ocular splashes and foreign bodies among dental surgeons in Nigeria.

Methods: This questionnaire-based cross-sectional of dental surgeons in Southern Nigeria was conducted between September 2010 and August 2011.

Ocular health practices by dental surgeons in Southern Nigeria.

Background: Dental professionals are among the occupational groups that experience ocular injuries and problems as they perform their daily dental works. The purpose of the study was to determine the ocular health practices by dental surgeons in Southern Nigeria.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on dental surgeons working in Southern Nigerian tertiary oral healthcare centers using self-developed validated questionnaire as the tool of data collection.

Oral assessment and nursing interventions among Nigerian nurses-knowledge, practices and educational needs.

Background: Assessment of oral condition, oral care, and informing the attending doctor of unusual oral findings for possible consultation or referral to a dentist are the advocated roles of hospital nurses. The objective of the study was thus to assess the roles of Nigerian nurses in the assessment of oral conditions of hospitalized patients.

Methods: This questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey of all nurses caring for hospitalized patients in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital was conducted in the first half of 2010.

Occupational stress among dental house officers and students in a tertiary healthcare centre.

Objective: To assess occupational stress among dental house officers and students treating patients in a tertiary healthcare centre in Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This questionnaire-based cross-sectional study of dental officers and final year dental students at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City was conducted in the second half of 2010. The questionnaire utilized was a modified form of stress screening questionnaire of International Stress Management Association.

Dentoalveolar abscess among children attending a dental clinic in Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the incidence and causes of dentoalveolar abscess among children attending an outpatient dental clinic in Nigeria.

Material And Methods: This is a retrospective study of paediatric dental patients treated in University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City from October 2010 to September 2011.

Results: The incidence of dentoalveolar abscess was 6.