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This research is to figure out the actual condition of the oral health of the subjects in a nursing home through oral health recognition and oral healthcare. A survey is conducted through a personal interview of 179 individuals whom are eligible to have subjective judgement among 15 nursing homes. Based on the research, if seeking to promote the oral health of the subjects in the nursing home, the plans are as follows. 1. Whether systemic health is not healthy to the unhealthy and ago 52.8% were common to feel a response Alzheimer disease, muscles skeletal disorders in 55.9% of cases showed the most. The mouth, dry mouth symptoms, 64.0% answered that the participants appeared to feel discomfort on chewing the respondents was 68.0%, respectively. 2. 51.0% users in the state dental crown, bridge users 55.9%, 63.7% and prosthetic dentures users (crown and bridge) are satisfied with only 46.7% were satisfied. Crowns, bridges, dentures all the period of 7 years to 12 years were used by 63.7% were using dentures. 3. For oral pain ‘No’ to the number of subjects that responded were common authoring dry mouth discomfort on whether or not 64.0%, to 68.0%, respectively. 4. One day when more than three times the number of strokes or if you have bleeding gums, 38.8%, 59.5% were not. All of wiping clean the tongue, if that's 33.8% and 61.7% have a bad breath halitosis was not. If you do not clean the tongue and bad breath that 61.2% showed that there was 38.3%. 5. Does not remove tartar and 82.5% of the subjects had a dry mouth feel. Depending on whether you want to remove tartar and gum bleeding, mouth pain, dry mouth, feeling the destination is not in the ratio was higher. 6. Bleeding gums, depending on whether the 60 nursing homes showed a 53.8% depending on length of stay less than one year was 40.0%. Oral symptoms according to the general characteristics of the 0~10 age care facility residents is higher the shorter term. Oral health, closely connected with the health of the whole body, can be maintained, and promoted by oral health education. There must be a consideration to need a developmental plan for elders like oral health education, oral health care programs. For the economic reasons and inconvenience, elders have a hard time visiting the dentist so the government should plan for free denture distribution and insurance for artificial teeth and this plan should be implemented soon. Preparing active and realistic oral health education is necessary to promote oral health and oral care and dental treatment systems to reduce the economic burden on elders. Therefore, our country and government should prepare a social security system for oral health and oral care.

This study has as its subjects 207students with graduation ahead (3rd and 4th grade) of Dental Hygienics at six schools located in the capital area and examined the degree of consciousness about blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before. The results are as shown below: 1. In the items of wearing gloves in general, exchanging gloves for their damage, and hand washing before and after the practice, etc., the most frequent answer was ‘I practice it all the time’; however, in the items of exchanging polluted masks, wearing an eye shield, and wearing a disposable gown, etc., the response of ‘I don’t practice it‘ was frequent. 2. Regarding knowledge on the tools for infected patients, it was very high as 207 (100%). And for knowledge on the infection route of Hepatitis A, the percentage of correct answers was the lowest as 143 (69.1%). 3. In the experience of training for blood-related individual infection management, the use of gargle is learnt the least. And training for discarding tools was dealt with the most. 4. Consciousness of danger of disease resulted from injection needles was high; however, consciousness of danger of work problems resulted from injection needles, mental pain, or financial loss was low. 5. According to the result of verifying if they wear protective devices for blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference in the items of exchanging gloves (p<.05), exchanging masks (p<.05), wearing an eye shield (p<.05), and exchanging aprons (p<.05), etc. 6. According to the result of verifying their experience of training for blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference in the items of training for using tools (p<.05) and consciousness of infection (p<.05). 7. According to the result of verifying the degree of consciousness of danger regarding blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was statistically significant difference only in the item of consciousness of danger of death from disease (p<.05). 8. According to the result of verifying the difference of knowledge on blood-related individual infection management according to whether they had hospital practice before, there was no significant difference in the knowledge of Hepatitis B-type infection route, but there was statistically significant difference in the knowledge of Hepatitis A-type infection route (p<.05).

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the middle-school students' behavior about oral health knowledge, oral health and to collect the baseline data for developing appropriate educational objectives to improve oral health. The subjects in this study 356 in province middle-school students' from march 12 to march 23, 2012. For the data analysis, an SPSS WIN 12.0 program was used and its signification level was 0.05. 1. Relatively many students have right knowledge on decayed teeth. On the other hand, many students are wrongly recognizing the oral health common sense. 2. Students with experience of oral health education stood at 9.43 points, thereby having been higher in knowledge level than students without experience of oral health education and having shown the significant difference (p<.05). 3. Oral health behavior level was indicated to be averagely 2.18 in the whole as a result of surveying it with 4-point Likert scale. It was indicated that the behavior on tooth brushing is being performed rightly, but that the behavior on regular dental treatment is not right. 4. The affecting factors on the oral health behavior was oral health common sense, explained 14.8% (β=0.239, p<.01). The finding of this study, adolescent oral health education of the students continued to receive the government's institutional support will be needed. To improve the oral health status effectively, informations should be provide to dental hygienists.

The purpose of this study was to analyze oral health behaviors of elementary, middle and high school students. A questionnaire survey was carried out targeting 321 students in Gwangju and Jeonnam area. As a result of collecting and analyzing data, the following conclusions were obtained. 1. A method of acquiring knowledge related to oral health was surveyed to be the most in 'neighbor and family (72.0%).’ Stress level on oral health was the highest with 44.9% in ‘feeling a little.’ Interest level was indicated to be 49.5% and 44.9%, respectively, in ‘moderate’ and ‘having no concern.’ 2. As for the perceived oral health status level according to general characteristics, a case of having been responded as saying of being 'moderate' was the largest (p<0.01) with 22.7% in high school students. According to a method of the commute to and from school, 26.8% of dormitory students were indicated to be ‘moderate.’ Thus, the statistically significant difference was shown (p<0.01). 3. As for the interest level in oral health according to general characteristics, it was the largest (p<0.01) in ‘having no concern’ with 30.5% for boy students and in ‘moderate’ with 19.9% for girl students according to gender. Depending on the economic status, 33.3% of ‘middle’ were indicated to be ‘moderate,’ thereby having been indicated to be statistically significant (p<0.05). 4. As for the correlation between snack intake and beverage intake level, the correlation coefficient was 0.186(p<.001). Thus, it can be known that the more snack intake level leads to the more beverage intake amount. In light of the above results, the factors of having influence upon oral health behaviors of elementary, middle and high school students could be confirmed to be mostly school year and economic status. The importance of oral health education and the awareness for oral health care could be known to be lacking. Accordingly, there will be a need of practicing with always recognizing importance of oral health care through education. Also, there is a need of seeking a proper educational plan and of being supported an organized system so that education can be formed with the lifelong instruction, not what results in one-time.

Lifelong education facilities in 35 to 45-year-old mother, research for oral health education program by developing each of the three experimental military and control group 3 places each one 20 preferably oral health education program. Oral health education program, 3 times with intervals of 4 weeks of training, education, education soon after, by running after 4 weeks of oral health perception and education after oral health behavior change effects you wish to validate. These findings are as follows: 1. Oral health education programmes to improve the mother's oral health perception and increase oral health knowledge, as well as an effective program, which can lead to an behavior proper oral health programs. Mother and targeted oral health education program is activated, then the health of family members, which is responsible for considering the role of mother to the younger children and family members to promote the positive effects the entire oral health maintenance, you will be able to expect. 2. Teeth of caries and periodontal disease is important, you need to manage more than 80% of humanity as the great oral disease and experience, once the natural healing is not only humanity, and irreversible diseases characterised. These teeth of caries and periodontal disease is a disease that is preventable diseases before this individual's oral health needs in order to enhance the ability of oral health education should be necessarily parallel. Oral health education in prevention of oral diseases, oral diseases are caused, and initially found to cure the most economical and practical. 3. Oral health education in oral health and care when seeking to induce themselves motivated and bookends, the results obtained by the hang themselves through education and instruction, rather than the results obtained because the command is persistence. 4. Oral health education program of experimental and control group in compare to see positive changes in the military trials, oral health education knowledge and habits of conduct with the change of the behavior are effective and easy to learn sign language, does know how you can take advantage of. This mother's oral health oral health education program for the mother with the help of an individual's oral health management as well as maintenance of a family member-wide oral health and promotes the positive effects will be able to look forward to. In addition, oral health education program development and enlargement provides resources for implementation would be helpful.

The purpose of this study which researched the changes of oral health knowledge and behavior of the third graders in elementary school by school oral life for 109 third graders in three classes of G Elementary School located in Gwanak-gu from Sep. 2011 to Nov. 2011 is to utilize as the basic material of school continuous oral health educational business. It was analyzed by the program of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) Window Version 18.0 and the results are follows. 1. For the percentage of correct answers for oral health knowledge, the previous average point of oral health education was 79.6 of 100 and the post average point was 86.7. The differences of the point between before the education and after the education showed a significant difference statistically, so the oral health knowledge of students educated by continuous oral health was improved. 2. The percentage of correct answers for oral health living habit is currently 100. And, the average before the education was 66.39 point and the average after the education was 68.8 point. The whole average before and after education was not significant, but in detailed items, toothbrushing, selection of toothbrush, confirmation of parents' toothbrusing and eating habit showed a difference between before and after the education. 3. As the result of testing DMFT index before and after the education, DMFT index was increased from 0.48 to 0.60, DT rate was decreased from 91.48% to 50% and FT rate was increased from 8.16% to 50%. It means that students who visit the dentist and get treatment after the education are increased.