Abstract

GOMES, Sabrina Fernandes. The importance and applicability of labor Dentistry in environmental exposure to lead. Rev. Bras. Odontol. [online]. 2013, vol.70, n.1, pp. 85-88. ISSN 1984-3747.

This study aimed to determine the oral manifestations due to lead and the importance of Dentistry by the worker through review of the literature. Occupational Dentistry can be defined as the specialty that aims at permanent search of compatibility between labor activity and preservation of oral health worker. At the same time check the conditions of the work environment and the chemicals to which workers are exposed directly and indirectly, and to investigate the risk of poisoning arising from work activity and its manifestations in the oral mucosa of workers.

Keywords : lead poisoning; dental work; oral health; oral manifestations..