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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2014.12.11.427

Dental Health Determinants of Elderly People  

Choi, Jin-Young (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, DaeGu Science College)
Kim, Gi-Ug (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Pohang College)
Kim, Ji-Hwa (Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Pohang College)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.12, no.11, 2014 , pp. 427-435 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was Dental health determinants of elderly people. For this purpose, a questionnaire was done for 396 elderly people of 60 or more years old who have visited Seogwipo city public health center(branch) in Jejudo from May 27th to June 5th 2013 after they heard the intention of that investigation. Result of the most answers were 'normal' for the question asking the subjective status of teeth health of whom having more than 20 natural teeth as 73.3%; the most answers of whom with less than 19 natural teeth were 'bad' as 41.4%, which showed difference(p<0.05). The factors influencing the subjective teeth health were 4.3times higher in cases of women than men. The higher educational(high school or more)had they, the more monthly average income(2 million won or more) did they have, the higher was their subjective teeth health status(p<0.01). It is more important than anything that they reserve more than 20 natural teeth until they get old to keep and improve their oral and body health. In addition to that, the oral health project or oral health program to perform country-wide programs for free, consistent and systematic oral health examination and education should be planned.
Keywords
Oral health/dental health; elderly people; Subjective level of dental health;
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