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This study was aimed at testing the correlations between ordinary people's belief there of and their oral hygienic behaviors and oral condition. For this study, the researcher sampled each district from province of Korea in department of Dental Hygiene College by 326 students. When analyzed with SPSS (version 12) for frequency analysis, ANOVA, and t-test, the survey shows; 1. Regarding the general characteristics, this study shows that the majority (53.1%) of the surveyees' 20 years old and 1st grade student (54.0%). 2. The subjects recognizing the devote to prevention of dental caries show statistically meaning difference (0.000) in oral hygienic behaviors. 3. Recently, went to dental clinic the subjects that shows grade statistically meaning difference (0.000) in oral hygienic behaviors. 4. Be subjects to restriction of life activity because of dental disease that shows regional statistically meaning difference (0.031). also dental scaling shows regional statistically meaning difference (0.000) 5. Most show average interest in the oral hygiene (44.5%), and show tooth brushing was very importance of oral hygiene control (45.4%).

This study selected 30 type 2 diabetic patients who visited dental clinic of D General Hospital in Gwangju and 30 non-diabetic patients as the subjects of research and conducted oral examination and questionnaire from Sept. of 2009 to Feb. of 2010. This study used comparison of the number of dental caries, crown and dentures, community care index and gum index, front and back tongue plaque, sensual assessment, objective assessment (bamboo salt toothpaste), objective assessment (mint toothpaste), saliva, saliva viscosity, and oral environment index, and then compared before and after tooth brushing. The number of permanent tooth which experienced dental caries in ordinary persons was average 3.87 and that in diabetic patients was average 4.30 (p=0.520). In case of front tongue plaque, diabetic patients (2.20) had more tongue plaque than ordinary persons (2.03) (z=0.907, p<0.05). In back tongue plaque, diabetic patients (2.73) had more tongue plaque than ordinary persons (2.20) (z=3.469, p<0.01). Accoridng to sensual method, ordinary persons (2.03) felt severe halitosis compared to diabetic patients (0.60) (z=6.363, p<0.01). But, in objective measurement methods (bamboo salt toothpaste, mint toothpaste), degree of halitosis of diabetic patients (bamboo salt 30.3; min 10.413) was higher than that of ordinary persons (bamboo salt 24.60; mint 5.424) (bamboo salt z=1.650, p<0.01). Good oral hygiene care ability is very important to keep personal health in the diabetic patients and effective oral care is possible through physical dental plaque control education. The diabetic patients can prevent dental caries or periodontal diseases with good oral hygiene care and this study was designed to improve the oral health of the diabetic patients.

After the dental treatment, suggest to need and importance of continues oral care so understand the factor of hinder an oral health care. The subject surveyed the 458 person of college students from september twenty sixth 2009 to the October second 2009 and analyzed the data. 1. After a dental treatment, about to oral regular checkup intervals over 73.6 percent said they will never go there again and 50.7 percent answers of people not use oral hygiene items therefore, the oral care were not properly. 2. Dental health education has been shown to be effective in slowing the oral regular checkup intervals. 3. Some 67.80 percent of the people answered the dental health education changes into toothbrushing and only 44.14 percent of those who responded oral hygiene items may be difficult to decide which items caused which effect.

The aim of this study was to highlight the importance of dental care service by investigating factors associated with the oral health-related quality of life in adults who visited dental clinic. Data were collected on 300 adults from a dental clinic, located in Seoul, between march and April 2008 using a convenience sampling method. We contacted patients while waiting treatment, explained the objective of our study, and upon agreement provided them with self- complete questionnaires. Oral health-related quality of life was measured using the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14). Bivariate analysis using t-test and ANOVA, and multivariate analysis using two-level regression model accounting clusters were employed. OHIP-14 items produced Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.899. We established that quality of life related to oral health is significantly affected by age, education level, ability to pay, stress and illness in bivariate analysis. Results from multivariate analysis, OHIP-Total score significantly affected age, ability to pay, stress. The study suggests that age, ability to pay, stress are significantly associated with impaired oral health related quality of life. This study could be used in oral health related quality of life and dental care service.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the state of antismoking guidance among dental institution employees and obstacles to their antismoking guidance in an effort to help boost antismoking guidance in dental institutions. Method: The subjects in this study were 182 employees in dental institutions located in the city of Busan. A self-administered survey was conducted from March 2 to May 30, 2010, with questionnaires of 15 items that covered general characteristics, antismoking attitude and antismoking guidance. Results: 1. 81.4 percent of the dental institution employees investigated definitely agreed that quitting smoking would set a good example to patients. When they were asked a question what impeded their antismoking guidance, the largest group that numbered 95 (52.2%) cited time constraints as a hurdle. 2. The older employees were better at antismoking guidance (p=0.032). By workplace, the public dental clinic employees were most excellent in that regard, followed by dental hospital employees, dental clinic employees and university hospital employees (p=0.000). 3. Whether there were any differences in their antismoking guidance according to the type of occupation was checked, the paraprofessionals scored higher than the dentists in antismoking guidance, but the gap between the two was not statistically significant. Conclusion: Dental health care workers should be taught to wake up to the importance of antismoking education to bolster their antismoking guidance. They should provide patients with professional antismoking education, and antismoking education programs should be developed from diverse angles.

Objectives: From the 2001 Korean National Examination Health and Nutrition survey, using research data based on of the interviews on health, the relationship between socioeconomic factors and dietary habits for the occurrence of dental caries for among adults over 20 years old were examined. Specific factors affecting the dental caries were evaluated. Methods: From the research data of the health survey, 26,772 adults aged over 20 years old were used as research subjects. In this sample, 25,203 respondents indicated that they did not have dental caries and 1,569 that they did, while 25,540 respondents indicated that they did not have any dental examination and 1,232 that they did. For the respondents with dental caries and for those who had have received a dental examination, socio-economic factors, such as age, sex, marital status, location, education level, occupation, monthly household income, and medical insurance coverage and dietary habits, factors, such as average number of snacks, kinds of snacks, number of dining outs, and number of fried food intakes, were considered. The effect of socio-economic factors and dietary habits on the adult dental caries was investigated. All the data analyses were carried out using SUDAAN 9.0 program, which is specifically designed for significance testing of samples. The level of significance was set at 5%. Results: Regarding the relevance of socio-economic factors and dietary habits on the occurrence of dental caries, age, sex, marital status, occupation, average number of snacks, kinds of snacks, and number of fried food intakes were found to be significant (p<0.05). Regarding dental examination, age, sex, marital status, occupation, monthly household income, average number of snacks, and number of fried food intakes were significant (p<0.05). Second, age, which was significant in causing dental caries, in relation to both the indication on dental caries and the indication on dental examination tended to lower the probability of dental caries occurrence with increasing age. For the occupational factor, labor workers and other workers had a higher probability of dental caries occurrence than with non-labor workers. Increased fried food intakes increased the probability of dental caries occurrence. Third, apart from age, occupation, and number of fried food intakes, which were significant factors in relation to both the indication on dental caries and the indication on dental examination, for the indication on dental caries, marital status and kind of snacks were significant in causing dental caries. For the indication on dental examination, monthly household income was significant in causing dental caries. Conclusion: Socio-economic factors and dietary habits were verified to affect the occurrence of dental caries in adults. In order to prevent adult dental caries and understand the related characteristics, research on dental caries, should be conducted with consideration for general characteristics like socioeconomic factors such as age distribution and occupation, In addition, various factors, such as the number of average food intakes, kind of cariogenic snacks, number of fried food intakes, and kind of cariogenic or fried food, should be researched and the subsequent results should be utilized in improving oral health management and oral health education.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of stressors to related factors in juniors who were about to take the national dental hygienist certification exam and in sophomores who were preparing for the exam, and to investigate their stress-coping patterns. The subjects in this study were 165 dental hygiene sophomores and juniors in Seoul, on whom a survey was conducted. The collected data were analyzed, and the findings of the study were as follows: 1. As for stress, the sophomores were under pressure due to dental hygiene classes (52.70%), academic standing (45.95%), the national exam (32.43%) and economic hardship (22.97%). The juniors were stressed out due to the national exam (83.62%), future employment (51.65%) and economic difficulties (14.29%). There were statistically significant gaps in their stress about the national exam, dental hygiene classes, academic standing and future employment (p<0.0001). 2. Concerning the impact of the stressors on stress, the sophomores gave a mean of 2.69, and the juniors gave a mean of 3.02. The sophomores were more affected by the stressors than the juniors in general. The sophomores got 2.39 in stress about the national exam, and the juniors got 2.81 in that regard. The former faced significantly more pressure about that (p<0.0001). The sophomores and juniors respectively got 2.25 and 2.83 in stress about dental hygiene classes, and the former was under heavier stress (p<0.0001). The sophomores and juniors respectively got 2.06 and 2.56 in stress about assignments, and the former was significantly more stressed out (p<.0001). 3. As a result of checking the correlation of general characteristics to the stressors involving the national exam, dental hygiene classes and assignments, the stress of the sophomores about the national exam was closely correlated to the degree of their sickness and employment prospect (p<0.05), and their stress about dental hygiene classes was correlated to the degree of their sickness (p<0.05). Their stress about assignments had a statistically significant correlation to health status and the degree of sickness (p<0.05). The stress of the juniors about the national exam was highly correlated to health state and the degree of sickness (p<0.05), and their stress about dental hygiene classes had a statistically significant correlation to satisfaction level with the department and employment prospect (p<0.05). 4. Regarding stress-coping patterns, the sophomores got 3.01 in long- term stress adjustment, and the juniors got 3.12 in that aspect. The most dominant way to cope with stress in both groups was by talking with others about the cause of stress, to which the sophomores and juniors gave 2.14 and 2.43 respectively. The sophomores and juniors got 3.01 and 3.33 in short- term adjustment, and there were differences according to their academic year in common short-term adjustment methods. The prevalent short-term adjustment method of the sophomores was having a chat with friends, to which they gave 1.99. That of the juniors was seeing a movie, going to the theater or watching TV, to which they gave 1.91. Overall, the juniors lagged behind the sophomores in the way of stress handling. The above-mentioned findings showed that the dental hygiene students suffered heavy stress while they were at college and preparing for the national exam, and the types of stressors differed with academic year. It should be noted that dental hygiene students are likely to be stressed out for different reasons according to academic year, colleges and dental hygiene departments should inform students of differentiated stress- coping methods in consideration of their academic year and develop counseling programs to prevent them from facing pressure.

Objective: With the rapid industrialization of our country and the improvement of health care environments and life expectancy, low fertility and aging of the population affected is rapidly progressing. The increased height of the elderly population, health problems in the society has become one of the most important concern. Essential for maintaining good health and promote oral health problems of one of the factors increasing age affects the quality of life not a few. Methods: This study is currently being used removable dentures directly to patients aged 96 and oral examination conducted the survey. Survey questionnaires were distributed and the subjects to write their own problems that can occur if the survey investigators to eliminate a phosphorus directly answering the survey questions on the subject and the individual records in a format that was created. Results: 1. Production place of removable dentures is a significant male 76.5%, 74.7% women in the dentals dentures were fabricated, men 23.5%, 25.3% women have to be made by an unlicensed dentures in place, but no significant difference was observed (p>0.05). 2. Removable partial denture satisfaction survey with 41.2 % of men ‘is usually' the highest is 45.6% women ’not satisfied' with higher Although there was no significant difference (p>0.05). 3. Removable partial denture cleaning solution and use the presence of a removable, dentures toothbrush, using only the furniture, there were significant differences depending on the type (p>0.05). 4. The general characteristics of elderly removable partial denture without the use of container survey, sex, age, education level, residency, smoking, alcohol, disease was a significant difference (p>0.05). significant differences, depending on household type was found (p<0.05). 5. The general characteristics of the elderly and the use of removable partial dentures on oral health survey of education experience, there was no significant difference (p>0.05). Conclusion: The oral health of elderly oral health education program for the systematic was needed.

Objectives: 220 of 3-year-old-child's mothers who sent their child to child care institution in Daegu were analyzed in order to improve their children oral health behaviour by researching their children oral health behaviour according to their mother's oral health awareness. Method: This study was performed from september 1 to september 30, 2010. The instrument used in this was questionnaires. we used t-test, ANOVA, χ2-test. Results: Regarding oral health awareness level according to mother's general nature, mothers who were graduated from university had higher the oral health awareness level (5.32) than that of those of who were graduated from high school (4.58), which was statistically related (p=0.006). In the case of mother with oral health education experience, this mother had higher oral health awareness level(5.69) than that of those who had not (4.73), which was statistically related (p=0.0001). In relation to mother's subjective health condition and oral health awareness, the better mother had their health condition, the higher oral health awareness she had, which was not statistically related (p=0.125). Conclusion: Regarding child's oral health behaviour according to mother's oral health awareness, period of child's tooth brushing (p=0.001), period of first tooth brushing (p=0.014), period of stopping milk or mother's milk (p=0.0001) and period of child's first visit to dental clinic (p=0.0001) were good, oral health awareness was higher, which was all statistically related.