According to the syllabus for BDS proposed by the Dental Council of India (DCI), undergraduates are exposed to clinical working conditions for the very first time during the 3rd year of courses, during which every student undergoes training in various subjects on a rotating basis for a fixed amount of time. This is the time during which ergonomics, as a part of the regular curriculum, should be taught to students, so that its importance in practice is emphasized and various guidelines followed. For this reason, undergraduates, i.e., both 3rd- and 4th-year BDS students, were
included as study participants.