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KMID : 0358920080350030578
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Pedodontics
2008 Volume.35 No. 3 p.578 ~ p.588
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PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECT OF PUBLIC DENTAL HEALTH SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN KOREA
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Lee Kwang-Hee
Song Ji-Hyun
Kim Ji-Yeong
Lim Kyoung-Uk
Jeong Seung-Yol
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Abstract
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To achieve the dental health of children and adolescents which is the objective of the pediatric dentistry, the role of the public service should be increased. The basis of the public service is established by many laws of which the Dental Health Law is most important. The percentages of primary schools that had the school dental health clinic, that implemented the fluoride rinsing program, and that implemented the group toothbrushing after lunch were 7.2%, 57.5%, and 46.9%, respectively, and the percentages of primary school children that received the dental health education and that received the fissure sealing were 48.0% and 12.4%, respectively(2006). About 42% of infants and preschool children from 0 to 6 years received preventive dental care in the last one year, at the nursery or kindergarten(18%) or at the health center(1%)(2005). The percentage of the health centers that implemented water fluoridation was 11.3%, and the percentage of the population who drank the fluoridated water was 5.7%(2006). It was suggested that the school dental health administration should be unified, that dental health teachers should be employed, and that the comprehensive dental health care should be supplied to all the children and adolescents through the circuit school dentists and the school dental hospitals in the long term. Also, the dentist in charge system for the children and adolescent was suggested.
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KEYWORD
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Children, Adolescent, Dental health, Public service
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