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KMID : 1023420080080030139
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Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2008 Volume.8 No. 3 p.139 ~ p.146
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A Comparative Study on Oral Environment between Smokers and Non-smokers
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Park Il-Soon
Yoon Hye-Jeong
Lee Sun-Hee
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Abstract
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This research had the following results after analyzing the questionnaires and the survey on 51 people experienced smoking and 51 people unexperienced smoking out of patients who participated in the practice hours of Department of Dental Hygiene to study the relevance between smoking which is one of the partial factors of oral disease and oral health. 1. 78.4% of patients smoke more while drinking, which level is still high, so it threatens the oral health. 2. 22.5 % of patients had the experience of scaling within recent 1 year, which level is still low. 3. The people who experienced smoking realized the harmfulness of smoking and during the toothbrushing, the level of self-consciousness about halitosis and bleeding gum is higher than the unexperienced. 4. The frequency of smokers’ toothbrushing on the average a day is lower than non-smokers. 5. Simplified oral hygiene index of men(4.98) is higher than woman(4.00) and the people experienced smoking(4.59) is higher than the unexperienced(4.18), which means that man and the person who experienced smoking has the bad oral environment.
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KEYWORD
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Oral environment, Simplified oral hygiene index
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