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KMID : 1020220120120020409
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Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene
2012 Volume.12 No. 2 p.409 ~ p.417
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Influence on Oral Health Condition by Visits to Dental Clinics and Dental Education Experience of East Asian Immigrant Women in Korea
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Yun Hyun-Kyuong
Choi Mi-Sook
Choi Gyu-Yil
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to figure out and establish the basic data that can help improve management of oral healthcare for the international marriage immigrant women.
Methods: In this sense, we surveyed questions on 237 women out of 1,300 immigrant women, who have participated in the program by multi-cultural household supporting center, in a fashion of face-to-face investigation and on-the-spot direct cavity inspection simultaneously from May 1 to October 31, 2010. Collected data were electro-statistically computerized under SPSS 17.0 program and analyzed with frequency analysis, recurrence analysis and logistic regression analysis respectively.
Results: The number of filled teeth got lower when they had lower number of dental visits. Women from the Philippines had the highest number of defect teeth, and the number of fixed prosthetic appliance became less when they had less number of dental visits. When they had no experience of oral health education, they had less fixed prosthetic appliances. There was higher percentage of periodontal disease when they did not have dental visit compared with the dental visit cases.
Conclusions: Preparation of a policy for east Asian immigrant women for them to visit dentist comfortably and expansion of systematic oral health education are highly recommended.
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KEYWORD
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Dental visit, Oral health condition, Oral health education, East asian immigrant women
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