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LUCENA, Vicente Cleiton Ferreira; MORAIS, Hécio Henrique Araújo de; DIAS, Tasiana Guedes de Sousa  e  BARBALHO, Jimmy Charles Melo. Evaluation of the integrity of surgical gloves and procedures gloves after dental procedures. Rev. cir. traumatol. buco-maxilo-fac. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.3, pp. 71-78. ISSN 1808-5210.

The present study aimed to evaluate the perforations affecting surgical gloves and procedures gloves used by dental students in dental clinics of the University of Rio Grande do Norte. We analyzed 138 pairs of gloves used in dental procedures performed by 33 dental students. The analysis was made by insufflation of fuchsin diluted in water, and the use of the technique advocated by Xavier et al. (2006), performed by a single examiner. The data recording are made on a specific form adapted from Cavalcanti et al (2010). The results were analyzed using the chi-square and Fisher's exact test, adopting a significance level of 5%. Regarding the frequency perforations, 25 gloves (8.99%) had perforations. The eighth period showed the largest number of perforations (31.8%) compared with sixth (26.3%) and tenth (12.1%) periods. The fingers of the gloves with the highest number of perforations were the thumb and forefinger (1st and 2nd toes) with 24.0% and 40.0%, respectively. The gloves used in pediatric dentistry had a significant amount of perforations (p = 0.051). There were a greater number of perforations in the dominant hand (56.0%) than non-dominant hand (36.0%) and only 6.0% on the both hands. We conclude that there was a large amount of perforations in gloves analyzed mainly on region of thumb and index of the dominant hand was where more the perforations occurred.

Palavras-chave : Protective gloves; work accidents; infection; Dentistry..