Dental Health Behavior of 77,000 Japanese Adults : A Large Scale Survey by Dental Checker^[○!R]

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  • 成人の歯科保健行動について : デンタルチェツカー^[○!R]による77,000人の集計結果

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Dental Checker^[○!R](KAITEC Co., Tokyo) is a computer program for assessing dental health knowledge, attitudes, behavior, life environment, willingness and disease symptoms. In this paper the interest was focused on analyzing answers to the 60 questions of the Dental Checker. Answers were obtained from 77,440 Japanese adults. The results were as follows. 1. More than two third of those surveyed (68.8%) answered that they did not know the total number of an adult's teeth. About half of the subjects believed that a toothpaste with fluoride was effective in preventing periodontitis (49.2%). 2. Most of those surveyed (90.9%) felt that "periodontitis is a serious disease." More than half of the subjects (53.3%) reported a belief that they may eventually require false teeth. 3. Nearly half reported that they "clean their teeth before going to bed no matter how tired they are"(45.8%), and that they "renew their toothbrush at least once a month" (45.1%). Furthermore, 78.0 percent of the subjects answered that they did not feel comfortable brushing their teeth without toothpaste. On the other hand, less than 3 percent reported regular flossing. The majority (81.3%) reported not using dental floss at all. 4. The most frequent oral symptoms were bleeding gums and food impaction between teeth (72.9% and 70.6% respectively). Far behind food impaction between teeth were enlarged spaces between teeth (46.9%), and reduced chewing ability (37.6%). However, 44.9% of the respondents agreed with the statement that they are too busy to go to the dentist. 5. More than half of the subjects wished for the highest level of dental treatment even if it was expensive (53.8%). On the other hand, the percentage of those "going to see the dentist regularly" was only 4.7 nercent. It can therefore be recommended that the ongoing oral health education should strive to provide employees with proper information about oral health, and with the appropriate items such as dental floss for cleaning spaces between teeth.

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