Abstract
journal of clinical gastroenterology is part of the Juniper publishers which is devoted to publish subject-specific articles focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine.
Highlights
It is estimated that more than 3 million people in Japan are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the number of liver cancer deaths annually is about 30,000 [1]
On December 31, 2016, 104,533 dentists were registered in Japan, 80,189 men (76.7%), and 24,344 women (23.3%). (Eighty dentists per 100,000 population.) Regarding the type of facility, 89,166 dentists worked in clinics and 12,385 dentists worked in university research institutes and general hospitals: the proportion of dentists working in clinics is increasing year by year
We have reported that 59.8% of HBV and HCV infection with liver disease patients consistently self-declared hepatitis virus infection when undergoing dental treatment [9]
Summary
It is estimated that more than 3 million people in Japan are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the number of liver cancer deaths annually is about 30,000 [1]. It is known that infection with HCV causes damage to the liver and other organs and tissues [2]. Such extrahepatic manifestations include lymphoproliferative, autoimmune, skin-mucosal and metabolic diseases. Over three million people in Japan are estimated to be infected with hepatitis viruses. In Japan, there has been little evaluation of dentists’ knowledge of viral hepatitis. We investigated dental care workers for their knowledge of, and countermeasures against, viral hepatitis
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