title: [Disease and dental health. Opinions of institutional dental care in a group of health personnel].
abstract: It is reasonable to expect that dental care for institutionalized persons in Norway will be considerably improved in the near future. Opinions and attitudes towards dentistry of the health personel working in the institutions, will, therefore, be of great interest. The present study which was performed by self-administered questionnaires, showed that most of the health personel at Lier sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo, were willing to and interested in doing active preventive work. There was, however, lack of knowledge about how to perform preventive dentistry. In the future, information and instruction concerning how to prevent oral disease, will be a meaningful task for the dental health team.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003729:Dental Care; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D009664:Norway; D009909:Oral Health; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control
vernacular_title: Sykdom og tannhelse. Meninger om institusjonstannpleie i en gruppe helsepersonell.