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Subjects of study were 648 patients who visited dental hygiene practical lab voluntarily between the second semester of second grade and the first semester of third grade in the dental hygienics of J college at jeonbuk region during september, 2012 to June, 2013. Oral health management needs oral health prevention, oral health education, oral health behaviors. 1. The difference between regular dental hygiene dental check whether the age of the subjects lowest at 9.9% at, ‘30 years and over' ‘19 years of age’ this was the highest in 23.8% (p<0.05). 2. If Dental Hygiene is subject to regular dental check-therapeutic purpose was ‘orthodontic treatment’ 35.5% in the first rank, ‘Gum treatment' was the order of ‘root canal’. If you do not play regular dental check-therapeutic purposes was the order of the ‘decay treatment’ 79.3% in the first rank, ‘Root canal treatment’, ‘periodontal treatment' (p<0.05). 3. Oral health behavior is better if you had regular dental check-up (p<0.05). 4. Scaling recent time appeared "within 6-1 months" is highest in people who regularly oral examination, oral examination on a regular basis in people who do not play, did not visit a dentist, was the highest (p<0.05). 5. If you are a regular dental check-up dental visits was 37.5%, ‘within six months’, if it does not Dental time of admission for regular dental check-up was 32.1% in ‘over two years’ (p>0.05). 6. regular oral health knowledge score was higher in people who oral examination (p>0.05). Therefore, it is considered that periodic oral examination of subjects had better influenced oral health.

This study was conducted to suggest the recognition of importance and the necessity of management by identifying the self elasticity elements which affect the depression of dental hygiene department students. Study subjects were targeting 600 female students who were enrolled in dental hygiene department in six three-year course universities and the survey was conducted from September 2012 to December 2012. 553 collected survey data were analyzed with SPSS 19.0 version program. 1. Significant differences in self elasticity according to general characteristics were identified in age, experience to study one more year, subjective family economy level, satisfaction about the department of major, satisfaction about the university. 2. Significant differences in depression according to the general characteristics were identified in subjective family economy level, satisfaction about the university and satisfaction about the department of major and significant differences in the subcategories of depression were identified in loneliness, helplessness and worthlessness. 3. Confidence, effectiveness in personal relations, optimistic attitudes which are the composing elements of self elasticity were identified to positively affect the depression and as the self elasticity was higher, the depression was lower. 4. As the self elasticity positively affects the depression, it is considered that the school should have the curriculum to raise the liberal arts knowledge and the development of personal counseling program and education which is required to prevent and mediate the depression.

This study attempted to survey the satisfaction with study majors and professionalism among newly admitted students of the department of dental hygiene in order to provide a basic set of data that can help foster proper professionalism associated with being a dental hygienist. It was shown that the higher the satisfaction with the study major, there was more significant difference in all fields of professionalism (p<0.05), with a correlation between the fields of professionalism (p<0.01). In terms of the curriculum for dental hygiene studies, in addition to practical training, a more focus on theory, values as a professional and education that foster capabilities to foster opportunities will be needed. By doing so, students that are newly admitted into the department of dental hygiene will be able to raise their awareness expectation on the importance of the characteristics of the profession.

The purpose of this study was to examine the needs of ordinary workers for oral health education in an effort to set up tentative educational objectives for oral health education geared toward ordinary workers in consideration of their needs, social requirements and opinions from experts. After a company was selected, a self-administered survey was conducted on the employees to find out their needs, and what's discussed in a scientific conference of oral health experts and Tyler's model of curriculum development were consulted. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. The oral health awareness and behavior of the workers were analyzed by gender, age and line of work. As a result, there were significant differences among them in awareness of the relationship between systemic diseases and oral health. The workers who were in the production line had less experience of receiving dental treatment than the white-collar and managerial workers, and the men had more experience of facing difficulties during job performance because of oral health problems than the women. The rate of getting regular dental checkups was low, and there were no significant differences among the workers in that regard. 87.9 percent received no oral health education. 2. As for interested field of oral health, every respondent had the biggest interest in dental caries regardless of their characteristics except the women, and what they showed the second most interest in was whitening(top priority for the women, the young respondents and the production workers) and oral malodor(second priority for the men and the white-collar workers). 3. Tentative educational objectives were set up after the areas in which the respondents showed a lot of interest were classified by gender, age and line of work. And then the educational objectives were divided into two in order to make it possible to select from among the educational objectives in accordance with to whom education is provided and with the goal of education. To promote the oral health of ordinary workers, they need a change of mind-set about oral health, and it's required to take appropriate measures to offer more opportunities for them to receive oral health education. Besides, oral health professionals should provide oral health education when they get dental checkups.