[Risk factors for rotator cuff injury among dentists]

The survey appears in the setting of the politics of improvement for prevention of professional risks in hospital environment in Ivory Coast.

To identify the influence factors of the coif of rotators pathology among dentist surgeons and to improve the preventive measures.

It was a prospective case/witness survey type. It had for setting, public hospitals and private clinics in Abidjan.

We enrolled two types of population (case/witness) comparable with the criteria's of age, sex, bodily mass indication (BMI) and laterality. The data have been collected on a standardized questionnaire named "Nordic questionnaire" and have been enriched. That informed on the bodily mass indication calculated according to the method: weight/T2 (m), on the epidemiological data and the specifics data of the shoulder and the coif of the rotators. The statistical tests have been done by the test of the Khi2 of Pearson, the test of T Student, the exact test of Fischer and the test of the gap reduces.

The study included 100 cases and as many witnesses. The middle age of apparition of the tendinitis of the shoulder was of 38,83 years. Age, sex, bodily mass and professional experience didn't have any influence on the apparition of the lesion of the shoulder. The analysis of the results established that the professional seniority encourages the apparition of the lesion of the shoulder. The length on average some seniority is of 12,7 years with extremes of 2 and 30 years. This observation rests on the fact that the risks of intervening of musculo-skeletal unrests of the superior member is equal to the length of work (effort, repetitive acts and stance) returned to the functional capacities.

The tendinitis of the shoulder, because of its importance must be recognized and repaired as an indemnisable professional disease.