title: [Is hygiene endangered in the modern dental office?].
abstract: Hygienic studies of the manual buttons of a modern dental unit show that these buttons are being contaminated during treatment. The number of germs depends on the duration of treatment and on the number of patients treated. As these buttons were pushed with the foot in dental chairs of older design, the ergonomic advantages of modern dental units do not mean hygienic advantages to the same extent.
mesh_terms: D003770:Dental Offices / Q000592:standards*; D006804:Ergonomics; D006920:Hygiene; D013242:Sterilization
vernacular_title: Ist die Hygiene am modernen zahnärztlichen Arbeitsplatz in Gefahr