Review article on study about perception of health care waste management amongst dental professionals in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh

This study has been conducted to assess the awareness and concern of dental health care providers towards handling and disposal of dental waste generated as well as knowledge of effective recycling and reuse of dental materials so that further necessary steps can be taken and more studies of such kind can be initiated in same direction. This cross-sectional study has been conducted among private practitioners and dental students who are planning to practice in Mathura district. After analysing responses to attitude based questions on biomedical waste management response showed favourable positive attitude. However they do not know concrete opportunities to put into practice waste recycling from dental work but majority of them collect household waste and dental practice waste together. Only few of them suggested for possible reuse of waste from dental practice. There are also inaccurate ways to collect hazardous waste; infectious waste is being collected with non-infectious or household waste. Keywords: Hazardous waste, infectious and non-infectious waste, bio-medical waste, segregation and bio-medical waste management.