A study on the North Korea's dentistry education system and its implication on the direction for integration of South and North Korea's dentistry education

북한의 치의학 교육 시스템을 통해 고찰해 본 남북한 치의학교육 통합방향에 대한 시사점

There are big differences in dental education system between South Korea and North Korea. In North Korea, there is no college of dentistry and official license system and thus, dentists can treat a patient right after graduation from medical school. There are also positions such as paradentists capable of providing dental treatments, whereas such positions do not exist in South Korea. In this regards, in order to get ready for the United Korea, we need to establish a system designed to complement the differences in dentistry education and license system between South and North Korea. Such system would help to minimize the social cost in relation to the unification in near future.