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Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders is high amongst dental practitioners all over the world. Indian population comprises of nearly three lakh dentists, making it crucial to ergonomically assess the dental occupation using different methods of an ergonomic assessment. The dental profession comprises of highly frequent hand-arm motions and necessitates the implementation of the appropriate ergonomic assessment tools. Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) has been created primarily to evaluate the risk involved in the repetitive movement of upper extremity body parts such as arms and hands. Umpteen numbers of studies have been done using other ergonomic tools (RULA, REBA, SI, and OCRA) in dentistry. Limited investigations have been conducted using the ART technique for assessing the dental profession ergonomically. In the study, ART was used as the key tool to assess the risk levels involved in the Indian population of dentists. The study deduced that the new improved ergonomic methods like ART may prove effective in determination of risk factors responsible for prevalent MSDs in dentistry.
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Bhatia, V., Randhawa, J.S., Jain, A., Grover, V. (2021). Ergonomic Assessment of Indian Dentists Using the Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (Art) Technique. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_95
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