Regarding the existing tools to assess spine loads at the workplace it appears that the tasks which dental workers routinely perform are at low risk for ergonomi-cally related disorders [7]. This rating is founded be-cause of the probably good environmental conditions (no cold or wet climate), excellent individual job motivation and social background, no load bearing tasks, no ex-treme body posture etc. However, low back and neck pain is a severe and common occupation related injury in dentistry. Survey data revealed a one year prevalence of back and neck pain of about 70%-90% [8-10]. Moreover, Wunderlich et al. [10] could estimate that about 80% of the affected German military dentist population occupy medical help to deal with the pain.