Abstract

FINOL MUNOZ, Alexander et al. Dupuytren disease declared as occupational disease in dentist. Rev Asoc Esp Espec Med Trab [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.3, pp.121-125. ISSN 3020-1160.

The stomatology is a medical speciality which consider treatment of mouth diseases and adjacent. As the odontologists, they are exposed to diverse occupational risk, such as repetitive movements, forced positions, physical and mental fatigue. Clinical case: 56 years old Man, with precedents of arterial hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, actinic queratosis in scalp. He continuously presents since 2006, tendon flexor injury in the right hand, valued by the service of prevention of occupational risks, receives treatment with poor clinical improvement and many recurrences. Since the above mentioned evolution, it was decided surgical intervention of the flexor tendon of 2nd finger of right hand with the diagnosis of Dupuytren's Disease. Later it is proposed to the National Institute of Health Service (INSS) an Occupational Disease, for a disorder derived from the occupational activity, which is admitted in 2007. For the multiple complications in spite of medical and surgical treatment and the days of sick leave in the company, the INSS proposes a permanent total incapacity for the usual profession, with favourable response. The analysis of the case, allows studying the evolution of pathologies in workers, relating the origin of the diseases with the occupational activity, emphasizing the courses of action if this suffering could be demonstrated as occupational disease. It also allows reviewing the different types of disability that can be generated from a disease and its repercussions in the occupational life of the worker.

Keywords : Dupuytren Disease; stomatology; dentist; occupational disease; permanent disability.

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