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This study examined burden of the disabled patient’s mother at the disabled people’s visit to dentalhospitals to help take long-term measures on the disabled people in social and national way and toestablish social welfare policy. A questionnaire survey was made from March 27, 2006 to April 17, 2006to investigate not only the disabled patient’s family who visited Seoul Dental Hospital for the Disabledbut also the disabled people’s family at each branch office at Seoul of the Korea Parents Association.170 copies of the questionnaires were used after excluding 7 copies not collected as well as 3 copiesnot completed. SPSS was used to investigate frequency and crosstabs. The findings were as follow:1. Mothers of the disabled people had the highest burden at the disabled people’s visit to dentalhospital, and they had the highest difficulty at no discovery of qualified dentist (dental clinic). Nodiscovery of qualified dentist also had high difficulty at medical treatment directions of disabledpeople, so that the highest burden of the disabled people’s parents coincided with desires of medicaltreatment directions at the disabled people’s visit to dental hospital.2. The disabled people’s parents had burden at the visit to dental hospital so that fathers had economicburden and mothers had emotional and psychological burden.3. The disabled people’s parents had different burden at the visit to dental hospital depending upontheir occupation, and housewives had the highest burden.The study suggested the burden based on the findings:Firstly, dental colleges as well as dental hygiene science departments were demanded to opendentistry for the disabled and to educate special knowledge and information of medical treatment of thedisabled patients for the dentists and dental technicians: And, resident system of the dentistry for thedisabled should be introduced in long-term basis to educate qualified dentists and dental technicianswho could give medical treatment in accordance with their specialty.Secondly, special dental hospital for the disabled patients should be opened. General dental hospitalsand dental clinics had limitation on medical treatment of the disabled patients, so that special dental hospital for the disabled patients should be opened to be equipped with psychological treatment, goodaccess, facilities and equipment and convenience facilities, etc: The dental hospital for the disabledpatients could be rarely opened because of low economic advantages at hospital management.Therefore, the government level of aid was essentially required, so that the government was demandedto give aid of the facility expenses that were need to design dental hospitals for the disabled patients atexpansion of the dental hospital. For instance, Seoul Government gave aid to open Seoul DentalHospital for the Disabled in August 2005.And, the government was demanded to give aid continuously to manage the hospital effectively evenafter opening. The ones who were given a certificate of enrollment of the disabled of cerebral palsy andmental retardation were given additional rate of 9.03, when they were given medical treatment inaccordance with medical insurance system: But, the additional rate could be very much rarely applied.Such an unfair application might prevent actual additional rate from being applied at medical treatmentof the disabled. The additional rate should be applied in differential way depending upon types andages of the disabled people, and some of the handicap might create risks at medical treatment in themouth so that additional rate of medical treatment risk of the disabled people should be legally made.Fathers and parents having low educational background and low income might have economicburden. From point of view of financial assistance of medical expenses, economic assistance of Korea infavor of the disabled people and their families was made by reduction and exemption, discount and taxreductions for the support of disabled family: But, simple tax reduction and discount system were noteffective for the disabled people’s family earning low income who needed economic supports verymuch, so that the subject of medical expense support business that put in practice for the disabledpeople being given living expenses from the government should be expanded to low-income group andintroduce universal financial support system and to expand services. And, medical expenses aid shouldbe expanded to alleviate economic burden of the disabled people.And, dental treatment had a lot of treatments not covered by medical insurance so that the disabledpeople should be given medical insurance by stage to alleviate economic burden of their family.And, the disabled people should be given self-supporting opportunity to alleviate their parents’burden.The followings were required to let the disabled people not be confined to their own houses to adaptthem to the society and to help the disabled people as well as their family have free time and economicadvantages and to alleviate burden: For instance, job training that could meet types and degrees of thehandicap, and job development, expanded compulsory employment of the disabled people, skilltraining, self-supporting and expanded rehabilitation facility for the disabled people who had difficulties at being employed at common companies, reinforced job training equipment and facilities, and betterjob training, etc.And, home care service should be reinforced to help the ones who had serious handicap to live life attheir home, so that the disabled people’s guardians had free time.

This study was to examine the influence of cognizance of childcare teachers about dental care ondental health of infants.For this, questionnaires to be self-filled up about cognizance on dental care were carried out to 82childcare teachers who are working in nurseries in Seoul and are in charge of the infants (3-6 years old;after the year’s birth)Also, dental checkup was done to 820 infants whom childcare teachers take charge and the results ofthe study are as below.1. In the cognizance of the teachers on dental care by final school careers, in case of universitygraduation, the percentage of correct answers by items is 84.0%, college graduation, 74.5%, highschool graduation, 68.0%, in order, so more than university graduation showed the highest correctanswers, which indicated that the more the school careers are, the higher the cognizance on dentalcare is.2. Regarding the cognizance of the teachers on dental care by their careers, the careers of 3-5 years andmore than 10 years showed higher percentage of correct answers by items than other careers, but, itrevealed there is no statistical difference.3. In case of the teachers who have right knowledge about dental care, the average number of decayedteeth of the infants they are in charge was searched lower than other teachers who do not have rightknowledge, so it revealed that the cognizance of the teachers on dental care affects dental care of theinfants.4. In the condition of dental care of infants, in case that nurseries and teachers put in operation ofappropriate dental care for the infants, the average number of decayed teeth of the infants wasexamined low, so it showed that the condition of teeth care also affects dental health of the infants. Considering the results above, it showed that the childcare teachers who spend a long time withinfants and are doing mother’s roles instead of their real mothers affected dental care of the infants.Therefore, it should provide proper education for the teachers to actually execute dental care for theinfants on the education spot, and also develop various education programs in the practical aspect.

The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygiene seniors about collegecurriculum and employment as prospective professional workers in the field of dentistry in an attempt toexplore how their employment could be boosted and facilitated. The subjects in this study were dentalhygiene students who were scheduled to graduate from a three-year-course college around Seoul. Asurvey was conducted for about three months from August through October 2006, and the answersheets from 226 students were gathered. Out of them, 190 answer sheets were analyzed with SPSS 12.0program. After statistical data on frequency and percentage were obtained, t-test was carried out. Thefindings of the study were as follows;1. 85.8 percent of the students investigated attended the college due to the strong possibility of getting ajob, and 89.5 percent chose the department for the same reason. 53.7 percent decided to choose thecollege and department at their own option.2. As for their experiential perception of college education, college education was considered to beconducive to raising social status(57.4%), guaranteeing a large income(81.5%), the pursuit oflearning(35.3%), and building up morality and citizenship(42.1%).3. A practical curriculum(74.2%) was viewed as most important for employment, followed by fieldpractice(62.6%), job seminar(71.6%), employment programs(75.8%), career counseling(75.3%),publicity activities (74.2%) and help-wanted/job hunting information system (74.7%). 71.5 percentfound it necessary to be connected to working graduates, and 74.2 percent asked for career guidanceby professors.4. Concerning their satisfaction level with college education related to employment, the satisfaction rateswith practical curriculum, field practice, job seminar, career counseling, publicity activities, help-wanted/ job hunting information system, connections with working graduates and career guidance byprofessors respectively stood at 81.6 percent, 81.0 percent, 34.8 percent, 28.5 percent, 35.4 percent,40.1 percent, 27.4 percent and 53.8 percent. 5. Regarding their post-graduation career plans, 91.6 percent wanted to work at dental hospitals orclinics, and 3.7 percent hoped to get other kinds of jobs. 2.6 percent planned to transfer to auniversity. As to preferred workplace, dental hospitals, university dental hospitals and dental clinicswere preferred by 23.2 percent, 19.4 percent and 7.9 percent respectively.6. As for their employment-related priority, they took social status, economic compensation,interpersonal relations, welfare benefits, commuting distance and commuting time into account, andtheir priorities were statistically significantly different(*p＜0.05, **p＜0.01).

1. After onion juice gargle, in the experimental group A which brushed teeth, it showed lasting decreaseof oral malodor until 20 min since the experiment, and after 30 min, the degree of oral malodorstarted to increase again.2. After onion juice gargle, the result of the experimental group B which brushed teeth, using auxiliaryproducts such as garglin, chewing gum, intaking green tea with roasted rice & brushing a tongue, etc.was as follows. First, in case of the experimental group BG which used garglin, it showed continuousreduction of oral malodor until 30 min since the experiment. Second, Also, in case of chewing gum(experimental group BC), intaking green tea with roasted rice (experimental group BT) and brushinga tongue (experimental group BO), it showed the lasting reduction of oral malodor until 20 min, but,after 30 min, the degree of oral malodor began to increase again.3. After onion juice gargle, the result of the experimental group C which took only supplementaryproducts such as garglin, chewing gum, intaking green tea with roasted rice & brushing a tongue andso on, was as follows. First, in case of experimental group CG which used garglin, until 30 min haspassed since the experiment, it showed the lasting reduction of oral malodor as the same trend withthe experimental group BG. Second, in chewing gum (experimental group CC), intaking green teawith roasted rice (experimental group CT), and brushing a tongue (experimental group CO),continuous reduction of oral malodor was shown until 10 minutes has passed since the experiment,but, after 20 minutes, we could see the degree of oral malodor started to increase again.4. After onion juice gargle, in the experimental group D which only the degree of oral malodor wasmeasured with the passage of time, neither brushing teeth nor using auxiliary goods, until 30 minsince the experiment, it showed the similar trend of the reduction of oral malodor with otherexperimental groups, but, it showed high degree of oral malodor, as compared with otherexperimental groups A, B, and C.As considering all the experimental results about the effect of reduction of oral malodor, it indicatedthat the auxiliary goods for the reduction of oral malodor, especially using garglin had the continuouseffect of the reduction of oral malodor even after 30 min since the experiment. On the other hand,auxiliary goods like chewing gum, taking green tea, unpolished rice & brushing a tongue showed theeffect of the reduction of oral malodor only until 10 min has passed since the experiment.Through this experiment, it revealed that, due to improved quality of life recently, since the interest ofgeneral people in oral malodor is bing increased, in case of not being able to brush teeth inevitably,using auxiliary products like garglin is a useful way for the reduction of oral malodor.

This study aims at providing basic materials to develop an effective plan for Dental health education,for this purpose, we surveyed and examined daily tooth-brushing habits and methods and its plaqueremoval-accuracy and effectiveness using the Plaque Index for 110 dental hygiene students of A collegeselected among dental hygiene students who are growing as leading experts for oral heath education.The results are as following.1. As the answer of a question about whether or not using rotating method in brushing their teeth, therewasn’t big difference between the answers but ‘yes’53.6% was little higher than ‘no’46.4%.2. As the answer of a question about the reason why one does not use the rotating method, ‘becauseone cannot easily change its habits’62.7% was highest then ‘because it is difficult to do’27.5% and‘because it takes too much time’9.8% were followed.3. As a result of surveying the reason why one does not use the rotating method according to the periodwhen the subjects learned the method, overall, ‘because one cannot easily change its habits’62.7%was highest, ‘because it is difficult to do’27.5% and ‘because it takes too much time’9.8% werefollowed, while in case that it was at the elementary school period when one was taught, ‘because itis difficult to do’54.5 was highest, showing a meaning different(p＜.05).4. As a result of reviewing differency of the total score of decreasing level by each removal level of thePlaque Index according to whether or not using the rotating method, overall irrespective of whetheror not using the rotating method, the Plaque Index was found to be removed, and in case of usingthe rotating method, 15.29 points were decreased, while in case of not using it, 14.32 points weredecreased, so we could know that using the rotating method was more effective.5. As a result of examining removal level of the Plaque Index according to whether or not using therotating method, when one would use the rotating method in the upper-cheek, front-tongue rear-tongue except the lower cheek, ones who did not use the rotation method decreased in the PlaqueIndex, but the difference was not meaningfully large.

This study investigates the effects of the working condition of most of workers in Korea on theirmouth. The subjects of the study include 87 office workers who work in 2 offices located in CheonAnand ASan City, Chungnam Province from February to May 2005 and they are asked to fill up thequestionnaire. Among the respondents, 7 are excluded because their questionnaires are not faithfullywritten; therefore, the final subjects of this study include 80 persons. The collected data are inputted andanalyzed using SAS program and the general characteristics of the respondents are described as realnumber and percentage. Categorical data are examined using Chi-Square test. Logistic analysis is used inorder to examine the variables that affect respondents’visit of dental clinics, the presence of scaling andbrushing the teeth before going to bed.The results of the study are as in the following.1. Among the respondents, male respon! dents are 67.5% and female counterparts are 32.5% and 93.7%of them are less than 40 who are relatively young.2. As a result of logistic analysis, the variables that affect the visit of dental clinics are gender, experienceof changing one’s position, presence of stress significantly.3. The results show that the female respondents (p=0.0492) and those who have the experience ofchanging their jobs (p=0.0246) are more likely to visit the dental clinics.4. The variables that affect the presence of scaling are significantly influenced by the variables such asthe experience of changing jobs and working hours a day. The more they have the experience ofchanging their jobs (p=0.0024) and the less they have working hours (less than 8 hours a day)(p=0.0187), the more they do scaling. One of the variables that affect the presence of brushing theteeth before going to bed is the marital status and married people do brush teeth before going to bedmore than unmarried people (p=0.0408).