의류수선 작업종사자들의 구강건강실태

Actual State in Oral Health of the Clothing Repair Workers

The purpose of this study was to investigate oral state of the clothing repair workers in Ulsan, Busan Cities. Recently, Clothing industry were shifted rapidly as a sustainable fashion style. It means reuse or recycling of waste materials each clothes. And, there are increasing more and more people working in recycling clothes fields. Until now, there are few research paper about the clothing recycling worker’s oral state. For this purpose, we examined 552 people as a questionnaire, final results were as follows: 1. According to the type of repairs had statistically significant in DMFT and drymouth (P<0.05). 2. According to the amount of repairs clothing had statistically significant drymouth (P<0.05). 3. According to the use of oral when repairs (i.e biting needle, unsew clothes) had statistically significant drymouth (P<0.05) in particular. 4. According to the cleaning at workplace had statistically significant in subjective oral health and drymouth (P<0.05), and in ventilation at workplace had statistically significant in DMFT and drymouth (P<0.05). 5. Difference in amount of beverage had statistically significant in DMFT and subjective oral health (P<0.05). 6. In discomfort oral items had statistically significant in all oral health factors (P<0.05), lastly, oral abrasion had statistically significant in subjective oral health and drymouth (P<0.05) in particular.