Dental technician pneumoconiosis mimicking pulmonary tuberculosis: a case report

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 1 Prevalences of Dental Technician Pneumoconiosis

References	Year	Mean duration of work as a dental technician (years),	Participants	n, no of cases	Radiological diagnosis	Prevalence (no in 100 participants)
Rom et al. [2]	1984		178	8	CXR	4.5
Selden et al. [3]	1995	26.0	37	6	CXR	16.2
Doğan et al. [4]	2010		36	5	CXR	13.8
Berk et al. [5]	2014	14.0	32	8	CXR	25
Ergun et al. [6]	2014		893	90	CXR	10.1
Karaman et al. [7]	2014	16.7	76	35	HRCT Scan of Thorax	46.1

Prevalences of dental technician pneumoconiosis were reported as ranging from 4.5 to 25 % in chest radiograph-based studies. By using HRCT thorax, Karaman et al. reported presence of pneumocosiosis in 46.1 % of participants

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