• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.516-524
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• 2014

Workers' oral health is important to guarantee workers' right of health and increase productivity. The aim of this study was to investigate recognition and satisfaction of national oral examination for workers in Incheon and Daejeon. Three hundred seventy-nine workers who were selected by convenience cluster sampling answered the questionnaire about experience, recognition and satisfaction of national health examination and oral examination by self recording type. A total of 76.0 percent of the subjects had national health examination, and 51.7% had national oral examination. A total of 64.9 percent had experienced notice about national health examination from the company, and 28.2% about national oral examination. The subjects had high positive score about intention of treatment, dental scaling, and change of toothbrushing method depending on oral examination, need of national health and oral examination, and usefulness to one's health through national health and oral examination. Office workers, regular workers, and the workers with monthly income more than 2 million won had more notice about national health and oral examination compared with sales and production workers, contract workers and the workers with monthly income less than 2 million won. We suggest institutional management of the notice about national oral examination be needed, especially for economically poor, or contract workers to increase the ratio to have national oral examination.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.217-227
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• 2022

This study aimed to investigate parents' and dentists' perceptions of the national oral health screening for infants and children (OHS), and evaluate the dentists' accuracy of analyzing the results of OHS. A questionnaire survey was conducted, face-to-face or online, for 90 parents of children who received OHS in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at Yonsei University Dental Hospital and 100 dentists working at local clinic or university dental hospital from May to October 2021. Most parents and dentists were aware of the importance of OHS, and approximately 96.7% of parents were satisfied with OHS. The requirements of parents and dentists about OHS were different. The reasons for having difficulties in explaining parents after OHS and the opinions on appropriate period and number of OHS were disagreed between pediatric dentists and general dentists. Regardless of dentists' major, work experience, elapsed period after taking online education program, the accuracy of the examination result was low. In this study, various opinions of parents and dentists on OHS were collected. Efforts should be made to enhance the oral health of infants and children by considering the requirements of parents and dentists and improving the accuracy of examination results.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.175-182
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of factors related to whether or not to take oral examinations for 104,811 economically active population aged 25 to 54 years using the 2016 community health survey data. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to oral examination rate the effect general characteristics, socioeconomic and geographical characteristics, and oral health management behavior. The higher who age, the higher who education, have experience scaling, and the better who subjective oral health status, unmet dental needs rate of oral examination was higher. The higher the income level, the lower the oral examination rate. Age of economically active population, marital status, education level, area, income quartile, empolyment, scaling experience, unmet dental needs, there was a significant effect whether oral examination. The purpose of this study is to establish an positive basis for an effective oral examination program to improve accessibility to oral examinations.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.265-272
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the dental screening and health care behaviors for 17810 residents of Gyeongsangnam-do province using the data of the community health survey conducted in 2014. The SPSS ver. 23.0 statistical program was used. The residents were male, aged 30-49 years, city dwellers, their final education level was college or higher, their income was more than 600 KRW monthly, and they had a lot of experience of dental screening. In terms of oral health care, scaling, brushing after eating, brushing before going to bed, and brushing more than 4 times a day were found in the dental screening. In terms of health care, the levels of drinking, without chronic diseases, self-rated health and self-rated oral health were high when the residents had experience of dental screening(p<0.001). Therefore, it is necessary to establish a plan to improve the oral examination rate, because the level of dental screening is related to the levels of subjective health awareness and chronic diseases and lifestyle, and it is necessary to develop an education program to improve the awareness of the need for regular dental screening.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.543-551
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the experience of the parents who examined the first infant oral examination and to understand how to improve the practical oral examination business. In-depth interviews were held with 10 parents who did the first infant oral examination, and their children's age was less than 18 to 29 months. The following conclusions were obtained by deriving the concepts and categories of the recorded contents. First, the main reason for the unsatisfactory examination of this study was that it was formal. Parents were disappointed in the fact that they did not look at the mouth of the child at the same time as it was fast and they said because it is carried out free of charge, it is more formal than the examination for general dental treatment. Second, most of the participants questioned whether they should resume infant oral examination. Third, it appears that the tooth number or dental terminology in the result notice is difficult to understand. Fourth, the opinion on the improvement of the infant oral examinations was should provided that the oral health management information after examination and the direct oral health management method education at the examination. In addition, we identified the need for parents' oral health care education for infants. Therefore, it has been confirmed that in order for the infant oral examination and young children to be practically carried out, the problems should be improved by collecting opinions of the parents. Also it is necessary to search for efficient business management method through repeated research related to infant oral examination.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.323-332
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• 2017

This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing the decision on whether to receive regular oral check-ups among the national health insurance beneficiaries with income and aged over 20 years in Korea. This was a cross-sectional study, using the data from the 2014 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES VI-2), conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The final sample included 2,843 subjects who participated in the health examination survey and oral check-ups. The IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 20.0 was used for the statistical analysis, based on the complex sampling design. The Rao-Scott chi-square test was used to verify the difference in the distribution of independent variables with regard to oral check-ups. The binary logistic regression analysis was used to determine the influencing factors. The ratio of beneficiaries who received oral check-ups was less than half of those who received medical examinations. The Rao-Scott chi-square test, revealed significant differences in the age group (p<0.05) of the predisposing factors, toothache within a year (p<0.001), untreated dental caries (p<0.001) of the need factors, personal income level (p<0.001), educational level (p<0.001), type of medical insurance (p<0.001), and private health insurance (p<0.01) of the enabling factors. In the binary logistic regression analysis, factors influencing oral check-ups were age group, personal income level, educational level, toothache within a year, and untreated dental caries. These findings show a variety of factors influencing the utilization of regular oral check-ups.

• 건강소식
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.30-31
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• 2011

생후 4개월부터 60개월 사이 영 유아에게 실시하는 건강검진은 성인의 건강검진과는 다르다. 성인 건강검진의 목적이 병을 조기에 발견하고 예방하는 데 있다면 영 유아 건강검진은 아이의 발육상태를 체크하기 위함이다. 영 유아 건강검진이란생후 4~60개월 사이 6차례(구강검진 3차례 포함)의 검진을 무료로 받는 것이다. 건강검진이라고 하면 피를 뽑고, 소변검사를 하는 것만 생각하는 시람들에게 영 유아 건강검진은 다소 생소할 수 있다. 키, 몸무게, 머리둘레를 재고 설문지를 작성하는 것으로 건강검진은 끝난다. 영 유아 건강검진은 기본적으로 아이의 발육상태를 체크하는 데에 그 목적이 있기 때문에 어른들이 일반적으로 받는 검사는 하지 않는다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.20-23
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• 1992

충치등의 구강질병은 예방이 가능하며 일단 발생하면 자연치유란 없고 질병의 진행만 있는 질병으로서 조기발견과 조기치료가 필요하다. 특히 학교연령층에서 폭발적으로 발생되고 있 기 때문에 학교구강보건관리가 중요하지만 선진국처럼 학교구강건강 관리실을 운영하고 전문인력을 상주 배치할 수 없는 현시점에서 예방교육과 조기발견, 조기치료를 위한 정기구강검사 제도는 필수적이다. 현행학교정기구강검사는 결핵, 간염, AIDS 등 질병의 전염문제와 검진비가 현실적이지 못하며 치과의사의 봉사강요형태로 진행되고 있는 문제 등이 있다. 그러므로 래원검진제 같은 의견도 있으나 현행 정기구강검진제를 개선하여 실시하는 것이 현실적이라고 본다. 기수소독문제는 치과의사 1인당 50개 정도의 기구가 준비되고 화학소독제로서 Glutal-dehyde(와이멕스)사용으로 해결될 수 있으며 기타 문제는 검진수가의 현실적 인상과 연계되어 근본적으로 해결될 수 있다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.77-83
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to survey aspects of factors in stages of change and decisional balance on oral examination of adults in their 20s by applying transtheoretical model. Transtheoretical model is the one that was developed in order to explain a human being's behavioral change. The stages of change consist of precontemplation stage, contemplation stage, preparation stage, action stage, and maintenance stage. Decisional balance is utilized with comprising 2 elements such as pros and cons in transtheoretical model, and was mentioned that pros and cons have unique form every behavioral stage of change. As a result of applying the regular oral examination behavior based on transtheoretical model, it was indicated to be precontemplation stage with 79 people(22.1%), contemplation stage with 156 people(43.6%), preparation stage with 38 people(10.6%), action stage with 47 people(13.1%), and maintenance stage with 38 people(10.6%). Subjects, who maintain regular oral examination, were indicated to recognize pros highly in the decision balance. Subjects, who don't have intention of receiving oral examination, were indicated to have characteristic of recognizing cons highly.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.259-268
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to identify effective ways to prevent periodontal disease in adults with risk factors for metabolic syndrome based on health examination examinees of some area. The study participants included 9,902 subjects who had received health checks at the Korea Association of Health Promotion from January 1 to December 31, 2014. All data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square test, logistic regression using IBM SPSS 24.0 Ver. As a result, it was found that regular oral examination (0.579), use of oral products (0.499), and oral health education (0.358) are most likely to affect the incidence of periodontal diseases among those affected by metabolic syndrome. The odds ratio of periodontal disease increased 1.79 times without regular oral examination, 1.61 times without oral products, and 1.43 times without oral health education (p<0.001). In conclusion, the results suggest that people with metabolic syndrome have a high risk of periodontal disease and that regular checkups, use of oral products, and oral health education are very important to prevent periodontal disease.