[Conscious survey of dental patients. 2. Questionnaire related to prevention (in the case of the new patients of the Nippon Dental University Hospital)].
A questionnaire on the consciousness of new patients was conducted in Nippon Dental University Hospital. Following our prior report, items regarding dental prevention were asked to 196 subjects in the present case. The results are as follows. 1. 53.1% of the subjects had experienced scaling of the teeth. However only 15.4% of them had regularly scaling. 2. 62.8% of the subjects had been given guidance in brushing and 39.8% of them had used toothbrushes by themselves in the guidance. 3. 99.5% of the subjects brushed their teeth everyday. 58.5% of them brushed twice a day. Regarding the brushing period, "3 minutes" amounded the highest radio, 33.3%. 4. Regarding the major purpose of brushing, "prevention of oral diseases" amounted to 50.5%, followed by "unknown". Namely, 23.0% of the subjects had no definite purpose of brushing. This figure suggests that the awareness on brushing was unexpectedly low. 5. 85.7% of the subjects wanted to have oral sanitation guidance and oral health management. Among them. 59.5% wanted to have "regular examination". To the question "How often can you visit our hospital except treatment?", 48.2% of the subjects answered "twice or more per year", 41.1% "a day for each examination" and 53.6% answered "60 minutes per day". Among those who wanted to have oral sanitation guidance and oral health management, only 32.7% wanted to participate in our oral sanitation class. These results indicate that many patients want to have passive management but for would start action by themselves. Thus it is the most important for dentists to carry out sufficient education and guidance under these situations.
Kobayashi
T
T
Ozawa
Y
Y
Sato
M
M
Masaya
M
M
Uchikawa
Y
Y
Tosaka
S
S
Uchikura
Y
Y
Takahashi
K
K
Shibata
M
M
Noda
M
M
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003740:Dental Clinics; D003777:Dental Prophylaxis / Q000523:psychology; D006267:Health Education, Dental; D006801:Humans; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires