A Survey Study on Oral Health Care According to Appearance of Experiencing Dental Treatment: Focusing on the Capital Region of Korea
Authors:   Asia-Europe Perspective Association, Park Myung-Suk , Nam Young-Shin 
Published: June 2018

As a survey on oral health care according to the appearance of experiencing dental treatment, the purpose of this study was to grasp factors relevant to oral health care by subject through analyzing and comparing characteristics in each between the subjects with experience of dental treatment and the subjects without experience. It carried out self-reported questionnaire survey targeting totally 600 people such as 300 subjects without experience of dental treatment and 300 subjects with experience of dental treatment. As a result of analyzing by using SPSS 15.0, the following conclusions were obtained.
1)University graduates were large in people with experience of dental treatment. As for residence, there were large people who dwell in city region. Among them, subjects with experience of dental treatment were 180 people(60%). Subjects without experience of dental treatment were 156 people(52%). As for job, it was the largest in students as for people without experience of dental treatment, and in professional job as for people with experience.
2)In the appearance of experiencing the oral-related education, the subjects, who responded as saying of ‘Yes,’ were 159 people(53%) as for subjects with experience, and 117 people(39%) as for subjects without experience. Thus, the experience of having ever been educated was larger in people with experience.
3)As for toothbrushing frequency, three times a day was the largest both in people with experience of dental treatment and people without experience. One time was larger in people without experience than people with experience. In 3 times and over 4 times, people with experience were indicated to be larger than people without experience, on the contrary. It was statistically significant.
4)In the response as saying of having experience of the oral-related education regarding people with experience of dental treatment, the subjects, who toothbrush over 4 times a day, were 27 people(17%), and were 6 people(4.3%) in respondents as saying of having no experience of education. In the respondents as saying of having experience of the oral-related education regarding people without experience of dental treatment, the subjects, who toothbrush over 4 times a day, were 20 people(17.1%) and 10 people(5.4%) for the respondents as saying of having no experience of the oral-related education. As for all of subjects with experience of dental treatment and of subjects without experience, people of toothbrushing 4 times a day were large in the respondents as saying of having experience of the oral-related education.
5)The awareness level according to the appearance of experiencing dental treatment was 4.14 points in people with experience and 3.96 points in people without experience. Thus, the awareness level was high in subjects with experience of dental treatment. The knowledge level was 1.86 point in people with experience and 1.75 in people without experience. Thus, the awareness level was high in people with experience of dental treatment. Statistically significant difference was shown.
It aims to suggest as follows.
First, regardless of subjects’ general characteristics(educational level, income, residence), there will be necessity for striving to reinforce practice on toothbrushing, which becomes the basis in oral health care.
Second, oral health care program needs to be developed that can be approached by people without experience of dental treatment.
Third, the working places of most of dental hygienists are now concentrated on dental clinic. Still, there is necessity for dental hygienists’ positioning in diverse fields, through expanding dental hygienists’ role through more researches. Furthermore, it is considered to be likely to greatly contribute to promotion in people’s oral health.