Resumen

GARBIN, Artênio José Isper; GARBIN, Cléa Adas Saliba; FERREIRA, Nelly Foster  y  FERREIRA, Newton Luiz. Evaluación de la incomodidad ocupacional: nivél del ruido de una clinica de graduacion. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2006, vol.44, n.1, pp.42-46. ISSN 0001-6365.

The increase of the sources producing of noise has been harming the quality of the professionals' life, accelerating to deterioration of the hearing apparel, could cause irreversible lesions, depending on the intensity of the noise and of the time of exhibition. The objective of the present study was an occupational evaluation of the noise level produced in 40 busy equipos by 80 students divided in couples, during the clinical activity, of the Integrated Clinic of graduation of School of Dentistry of Araçatuba-UNESP, and to alert the professional futures of the importance of the socket of preventive measures against the occupational diseases that you/they attack the surgeon dentist. The instrument to quantify the noise level was a dosímetro model Q-400 marks Quest Technologies, fastened in a voluntary student. The results showed that noise level, the results showed that so much the average, maximum, and minimum (76.0 dB; 83.4 dB and 70.0dB, respectively) it doesn't consist of an unhealthy activity according to NR-15 of Safety's norm and Medicine of the Work and it doesn't establish the compulsory nature as for the hearing protector's use. However the maximum value was above the limited of 80 dB of the norm NR-17, and finally, all the values were above 65 dB of the norm NBR-10152 of acoustic comfort. It is ended that the professional should adopt measured of preventive behavior, as the use of the protector headphone, even if no obligatory, to avoid hearing lesions along his/her carreira.Is important to emphasize that the Universities should accomplish evaluations of unsoundness in the graduation clinics, and like this to alert the professional futures of the occupational risks, which are exposed.

Palabras clave : noise; occupational diseases; physical agents; dentistry of the work..