Journal of Allergy & Therapy

Patch test results of the dental personnel with contact dermatitis

7^th International Conference on Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology

September 14-15, 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ulker Gul and Oguzhan Kocak

Akdeniz University, Turkey
Dumlupinar University, Turkey

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Allergy Ther

Abstract:

Objectives: Dental personnel have high risk of occupational contact dermatitis. The aim of this study is to detect the materials which cause contact sensitization and the frequency of contact dermatitis by using patch tests with European standard series and dental screening series in dental personnel. Methods: Between August 2008 and July 2009, 461 dental personnel working in Ankara (Turkey) were examined and age, gender, previous history of dermatitis, area of the skin affected and clinical diagnosis were noted. About 198 (43%) of the dental personnel were diagnosed contact dermatitis. 65 of the dental personnel accepted to be patch tested. Results: Dental technicians, dentists and dental nurses constitute 69.2%, 24.6% and 6.2% of patch tested 65 patients, respectively. Positive reactions to at least one allergen were detected with European standard series at 20% and with dental series at 10.8% among the dental personnel. The most common allergens were nickel sulfate (12.3%), acrylates (6.1%) and para-tertiarybutylphenol- formaldehyde resin (4.6%). The most common acrylate was ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (3.1%). Conclusions: We believe our study will be helpful to dermatologists about frequency of contact dermatitis among dental personnel and allergens that cause contact sensitivity for developing new methods to protect the personnel in dentistry against sensitization.

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Email: ulkergul@yahoo.com