청소년의 구강위생용품 사용과 구강질환증상에 관한 연구

A Study on the Use of Oral Hygiene Supplies and Oral Disease Symptoms in Adolescents

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of oral hygiene supplies and oral disease symptoms among adolescents in an effort to provide some information on the selection of what to teach in youth oral health education. As for analysis methods, SPSS 18.0 was employed. Frequency analysis and cross tabs were carried out. Regarding the use of oral hygiene supplies by gender, the rate of use of mouth rinse was 4.2% lower in the boys(20.9%) than in the girls(25.1%), and the difference was statistically significant(x2=9.95, p<0.05). Regarding the use of oral hygiene supplies by grade, the middle school students made more use of dental floss(x2=44.81, p<0.001), interdental brushes(x2=17.85, p<0.01) and mouth rinse(x2=39.45, p<0.001) and electronic tooth-brushes(x2=23.91, p<0.001), and these were statistically significant differences. In regard to the ex-perience of oral disease symptoms by grade, the high school students had more toothache when eating food(x2=11.41, p<0.05), experienced a more throbbing toothache(x2=30.13, p<0.001) and had sore or bleeding gums(x2=9.75, p<0.05). These were statistically significant differences. As to the ex-perience of oral disease symptoms by gender, there were statistically significant differences in tooth-ache experience while eating(x2=28.96, p<0.001), in throbbing toothache experience (x2=65.19, p<0.001), in the experience of having sore or bleeding gums(x2=19.38, p<0.001) and in the experi-ence of having a throbbing pain on the tongue or inside the cheek(x2=10.29, p<0.001). The above-mentioned findings of the study seem to suggest that it is necessary to strengthen oral health education geared toward school girls and high school students.