A study on the necessity of the establishment of more incremental oral health care centers and relevant needs

계속구강건강관리센터 증설의 필요성과 요구도 조사

The purpose of this study was to examine the necessity of the establishment of more incremental oral health care centers and needs for that as a means to step up the job extension of dental hygienists. It's basically meant to provide some information on the installation of more incremental oral health care centers. The subjects in this study were 298 dental hygienists in dental hospitals and clinics in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. The findings of the study were as follows: The most common recall cycle for patients who were to receive preventive dental treatment was between three and less than six months, and the preventive job that was most widely conducted in the dental hospitals and clinics was regular recall, followed by individual toothbrushing education, scaling, pit & fissure sealing, partial application of fluorides, individual oral health education, PMTC:EVA tip. Regarding needs for the introduction of incremental oral health care centers among the dental hygienists, 71.8 percent replied they had an intention to do that. As for the reason, the largest group(47.4%) thought that it would be necessary to expand the preventive duties of dental hygienists, and the second biggest group(33.0%) expected it to expedite the career diversification of dental hygienists in the future. Therefore the necessity of the establishment of more incremental oral health care centers is justified as a way to accelerate the preventive job expansion of dental hygienists, to ensure the diversity of treatment and to promote the oral health of everybody in the nation as well as local residents.

연구목적: 치과위생사의 업무확장을 위한 계속구강건강관리센터 증설의 필요성과 요구도를 알아봄으로서 계속구강건강관리센터의 증설에 필요한 기초 자료를 제공하고자 한다. 연구방법: 서울·경기지역 치과 병·의원에 근무하는 치과위생사를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 총 298부가 최종 분석 자료로 활용되었다. 통계분석은 SPSS Statistics version 18.0을 이용하였다. 연구결과: 치과 예방환자의 리콜주기는 3개월~6개월 미만이 가장 많은 분포를 보였고, 치과에서 실시하고 있는 예방업무로는 정기적 리콜, 개인별 잇솔질 교육, 치면세마, 치면 열구전색, 불소도포, 개인별 구강보건교육, 전문가 치간청결 물리요법(PMTC:EVA tip) 순으로 나타났다. 치과위생사의 계속구강건강관리센터 도입 요구도는 '도입의 향이 있다'가 71.8%로 높았으며, 그 이유로는 '치과위생사의 예방업무 확장으로 필요하다고 생각한다'가 47.4%로 가장 높았고, 다음으로 '향후 치과위생사의 진로에 다양성을 줄 것이라 생각한다'가 33.0%로 나타났다. 결 론: 치과위생사의 예방업무 확장 및 진료의 다양성 확보와 더불어 지역주민 더 나아가 전 국민의 구강건강 수준의 향상을 위해서 계속구강건강관리센터 개설의 필요성이 요구된다.