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Journal of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering 2006 Volume.21 No. 2 p.36 ~ p.46
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Mother¡¯ Oral Health Management Behavior to their Children in Iksan
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Choi Mi-Suk
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Abstract
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The purpose if this study was to investigate mother¡¯ oral health management behavior to their children. Two hundreds sixty seven mothers with elementary school students were surveyed among the residents living of Iksan city, Korea.
A questionnaire was constructed and administered to the samples. The research focused in the following items: the subjects¡¯ socio-demographic factors such as education level and employment and so on; their knowledge of plaque; the leading causes of caries. regular dental examinations; dental treatment; their interest in their children¡¯s dental health; the frequency of the subjects examining their children¡¯s teeth; non-cariogenic food preparation, etc. Being based in collected data. mothers¡¯ oral health management behavior to their children were analyzed according to maternal socio-demographic factor and result were following. There was a difference in the subjects knowledge of dental plaque in accordance with their employment or unemployment and family income. There was no difference in mother¡¯s oral health management behavior to their children according to parents¡¯ education level, the subjects¡¯ age and family income. Most of mother answered the main reason of dental caries was that their children did not toothbrush their teeth regularly and there was a difference in the understanding of the subjects in accordance with the education level of fathers and family income. The subjects had a low understanding of the effect of preventing caries with the help of fluoride. They didn¡¯t have enough understanding of water fluoridation. So it is necessary that active campaigns should be launched to enlighten people in relation to the ways of preventing dental caries with fluoride.
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KEYWORD
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oral health management behavior, plaque, caries
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