Dental ergonomics: Basic steps to enhance work efficiency
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Ergonomics for the dental assistant.
Recently, ergonomics has become a popular term. The term has been used with most professions, but increasingly in the dental profession. When you hear ergonomics, many meanings may come to mind. According to Pollack (1989), ergonomics is a discipline that studies workers and their relationship to their occupational environment. This could include many different concepts such as how we position ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2321-4848
DOI: 10.4103/2321-4848.154966