|
KMID : 1023420090090020211
|
|
Journal of Dental Hygiene Science
2009 Volume.9 No. 2 p.211 ~ p.217
|
|
|
The Oral Health Behaviors of Workers by Dental Caries
|
|
Jang Kyeung-Ae
Hwang In-Chul
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
The purpose of this study is to investigate into company workers’ general characteristics and their awareness of oral health examinations. Answer sheets for questionnarie for 267 industrial workers at Changwon city, Korea, were collected and analyzed using SPSS 12.0. Among workers who haven’t visited a dental clinic for last one year, 75.6% of them didn’t have dental caries. 74.0% of workers who haven’t received dental scaling didn’t have dental caries. 84.4% of workers who thought of themselves as having good oral health had good oral health and none of them had dental caries. 9.1% of people who had dental caries of 4 or more had bad breath. 73.4% of workers didn’t need to treat dental caries, while scaling in 57.7% of them was required. To reform and improve of the system, incremental dental health care system for industrial workers is needed. Oral health education is needed to increase the motivation of industrial workers to control their basic disease.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Dental caries, Oral health behaviors, Periodic oral examination
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
 
|