[Vaccination of dental surgeons against viral hepatitis B].

One hundred dental surgeons practising in western France were immunized against hepatitis B virus, using the same batch of HEVAC B vaccine from the Pasteur Institute. The vaccine was very well tolerated. Seroconversion at 10 m IU/ml was 94% after 3 injections and 98% after the booster dose.

[Seroepidemiology of hepatitis B markers in dentists in Ille-et-Vilaine].

In June, 1982 a questionnaire concerning a serological and epidemiological study of hepatitis B markers was mailed to the 421 private dentists in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France. One hundred and eighty-nine dentists (49%) filled the questionnaire, and 163 (38.2%) were investigated for HBs antigen and anti-HBs and/or anti-HBc antibodies.