• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.158-163
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• 2015

General anesthesia (GA) for dental care in handicapped patients is necessary to facilitate the provision of safe, efficient, and effective quality treatment. The aims of this study were to determine the anesthetic characteristics of handicapped patients in need of dental treatment in these day care units, and to establish for plan to provide better services. 325 patients who had outpatient general anesthesia from January 2005 to March 2014 were assessed for this study. Patients' distribution and treatment patterns were examined. The proportion of male patients (202, 62.2%) was higher than female patients (123, 37.8%) and the largest group of patients were 5 to 10 years old (85, 26.2%). The reasons for general anesthesia included mental and physical disabilities (207, 63.7%), behavior management (84, 25.8%), parent needs (14, 4.3%), and so on. Restorative treatment was the most common procedure with the average of 4.2 teeth treated per one patient and 43 (13.2%) patients underwent general anesthesia for dental treatment more than once. To expand and improve access to the dental care of the disabled, improvement of the health care system, enhancement of their training for dental care by professionals, and enlarging caregivers'understanding of the importance of oral care in the early stages are required.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.173-182
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• 2019

Vertical facial growth triggers the rotation of mandible to move the chin point to the downward and backward direction, which showed remarkably effective result making the less prominent chin. Recently, the intraoral removable appliance utilizing class III elastic demonstrated the vertical growth trigger mechanism. The treatment change was very fast and wearing was quite easy, compared to extraoral appliances. The purpose of this study was to verify the duration of the treatment on class III malocclusion using intraoral removable appliances, which designed to accelerate vertical facial growth. 56 patients were selected with the complaint of the protruded mandible and class III malocclusion (overjet : -3 - 0 mm, overbite : 0 - 4 mm). Information like; age at start, duration of the treatment events, type of the treatment, overjet, overbite etc. was collected and calculated. The average age of the patients delivering the initial brace was $8.75{\pm}1.10year$. Most of the anterior crossbite was resolved within 6 months. The total treatment period was $21.79{\pm}10.73months$ with the additional procedures like the alignment of anterior teeth and torque control using additional removable and fixed orthodontic appliances. The correlation study showed that patient's cooperation (p = 0.000) and the use of fixed appliance (p = 0.032) were significantly influenced on treatment duration.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.25 no.2 s.213
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• pp.136-143
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• 1987

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.29 no.4 s.263
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• pp.280-280
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• 1991

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.506-512
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• 1998

The dentists often encouter a child who can not be treated with traditional behavior management technique. Mentally or physically handicapped child could receive proper dental care under general anesthesia. General anesthesia for dental care can be done in an outpatient surgery or inpatient surgery depending on the patient. In outpatient surgery, the patient is admitted and discharged the same day. Postoperative care and discharge procedure are abbreviated. Advantages of outpatient surgery are much less emotional disturbance of patients, reduced risk of nosocomial infection and less cost of treatment. A case of a physically handicapped patient treated under general anesthesia at Day Surgery Center is presented and the procedure and patient selection of outpatient surgery as well as its limitation is reviewed in this paper.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.25 no.2 s.213
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• pp.107-115
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• 1987

합리적이고 예측가능한 치주치료 계획의 수립은 치주치료의 성패를 좌우하는 관건이 된다. 치주질환에 대한 정확한 진단과 치료의 결과를 과학적으로 예측하는 기본개념을 근거로 하여 수립되는 치료계획을, 치주치료의 목적과 각 치료술식이 가지는 결과에 대한 과학적 예측 그리고 현재의 제한점등을 고찰하면서 설정해보기로 한다.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.367-373
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to analyze factors impacting on the middle & high school students' dental treatment fear and distrust of dentists with dental caries experience to provide empirical data for the development of students oral health. The subjects of this study consists of 720 middle & high school students in Daegu area. The data were collected from July 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009 by self-administrative questionnaires. Among sub-scales of Dental Fear Survey(DFS), stimulate-response factor was the highest ($3.42{\pm}0.98$), and patient distrust toward dintist factor was the highest score($3.07{\pm}0.912$) among sub-scales of Dentist Distrust Survey(DDS). Mean score of DFS were DDS were higher in female than male student. The students who have higher DFS and DDS score, the also have high DMFT index. The higher DDS, the higher DFS, and it was statistically significant(p<0.001). The results suggest that oral health status of adolescent can improve diminishing dental fear and dentist distrust if patient-specific medical service may be provided.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.330-338
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• 2022

For edentulous patients with unstable mandibular movements and abnormal facial features due to condylar fractures and morphological abnormalities, it is important to find a stable mandibular position. In this case, the patient's facial improvement, mandibular movement stability, and denture stability were improved by using flat table treatment dentures. In addition, computer-aided design/manufacturing (CAD-CAM) technology was used in denture fabrication to maintain the vertical dimension and lip support of flat table treatment dentures, we report good results in improving the patient's discomfort.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.371-379
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to develop basic data in improving quality of life along with the enhancement in oral health, by arranging a plan for being able to reduce dental fear given the dental treatment in the future by grasping the subjective oral health recognition & status, and the dental fear level of the dental treatment field targeting patients of visiting dental clinics in Busan and Gyeongnam area. In the whole items of DFS, a sense of fear was higher in women than men. A factor of avoiding dental treatment stood at 1.72 points in men and 2.10 points(p<0.001) in women. A factor of response to stimulation stood at 2.75 points in men and 3.20 points(p=0.001) in women. A fear level according to dental kind was high in a factor of avoiding implant treatment(p=0.015), a factor of avoiding orthodontic treatment(p=0.002), physiological reaction(p=0.009), a factor of avoiding prosthesis treatment(p=0.014), a factor of avoiding pulpectomy treatment(p=0.005), a factor of physiological reaction(p=0.017), a factor of avoiding periodontal therapy(p=0.013), a factor of physiological reaction(p=0.004), and a factor of avoiding treatment given not receiving regular checkup(p=0.027). In the above results, to reduce dental fear, there will be a need of developing diverse programs and oral health eduction for regular checkup and preventive treatment.

• The Journal of the Korean dental association
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• v.29 no.6 s.265
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• pp.467-474
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• 1991

구강질병의 합리적인 관리는 질병의 원인규명을 바탕으로 예방과 치료가 이루어 져야 한다. 구강의 발생학적, 생리학적인 복합성 때문에, 구강질병에 대한 정확한 이해가 어려우므로 치과진료실에서의 진료행위는 상당한 제한된 것이었고 불완전한 것이었다. 치아의 지지경조직, 연조직, 기타 구강에 영향을 주는 제반질병의 합리적인 관리가 구강내과학적으로 우선되야 할 것이다. 치과의사는 백혈구나 적혈구에 이상이 있는 환자는 치료하는 경우에 주의하여야 할 점이 많으므로 환자의 병력, 임상검사 및 예비검사등에 의하여 이러한 질병을 발견할 수 있어야 한다. 이러한 환자에서는 비정상 출혈, 치유지연, 감염 혹은 점막 궤양이 나타나기 쉽다. 더구나 이들 중 어떤 질환은 치명적으로 이런 환자를 찾아내어 치과처치를 하기전에 내과의사에 보내어 진단, 치료를 받게 해야 한다. 환자자신이 질환에 대해 알고 있고 내과적 처치를 받고 있는 경우라도 의사와 협의가 없이는 어떠한 치과적 처치라도 피하도록 하는 것이 좋겠다. 이에 이러한 혈액질환들의 원인과 증상, 치료법등을 간단히 소개하여 수차에 걸쳐 연재하도록 하겠다. 여기에 연재된 내용들은 어떤부분에서는 너무 자세하게 기술된 내용도 없지 않으나 조금이나마 환자 치료에 도움이 되었으면 하는 바램이다.