This thesis was implemented to develop the health care instruction program and provide the fundamental data for the establishment of the health care policy on the oral cavity after grasping the reality of the self management, the level of recognition ...
This thesis was implemented to develop the health care instruction program and provide the fundamental data for the establishment of the health care policy on the oral cavity after grasping the reality of the self management, the level of recognition toward the effect of mastication and the relevant factors on the satisfaction at dentures of the denture patients of old adults. The survey through interviews was taken on the 320 of the denture patients of above 65 who took advantage of the dental clinic, the elderly welfare center, the sanatorium and the nursing home in Daegu and Gyeongbuk province from 15, 8 2012 to 15, 9 2012 and 300 copies were got to be analyzed excluding the 20 copies of questionnaires with answers of duplicity. The following are the specific results.
The inquiry subjects, they had the right health care behaviors toward the oral cavity overall but the areas of the recognition of the reality of the self management on the denture and the information about the effect of the mastication, they were low.
As for the cause of pain after setting the dentures according to the general characteristics, the inexperienced management by themselves was the largest as 71.0% and as for the washing of the dentures, the case of the washing with the paste was the largest as 79.0%.
As for the methods of sterilization of dentures, the brushing well was the largest as 38.3% and as for the decisive cause of the mastication effect of dentures, the conditions of the oral cavity of them was the largest as 43.0% and as for the elevation of the mastication effect, the soft food ingestion was the largest as 46.7%. As for the reason of poor mastication effect, the ratio of 30.7% of the answer of wrong dentures management was the largest and as for the measures to the poor mastication effect, the ratio of 77.0% of the answer of seeing the dentist was the largest.
Seeing the satisfaction degree(5 scores as a standard of the perfect score) in the total items, the satisfaction degree of the effect of the oral cavity state after setting the dentures was the largest as 4.22 point.
In the correlation between the general characteristics and the level of satisfaction degree of dentures, the satisfaction degree of the dentures with the remaining number of teeth in the lower jaw was the highest in correlation(r=.291) with the statistically significant correlation(p<0.01).