Correlation between High School Students' Experience of Visiting the Dental Clinic and Oral Symptoms

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate correlation between experience of visiting the dentist and oral symptoms with 10,701 high school seniors in the research data of the 8th juvenile online health behavior carried out in 2012. The results of this research showed that the lower academic grades, the more tooth crack they experienced, and the lower economic conditions, the more toothache they tended to experience. The main reasons they visited the dentist were because their teeth ached, tingled or throbbed with pain. Scores of oral symptoms, sex, economic conditions and the number of experience of visiting the dentist were found to have a significant correlation. In order to improve high school students' dental health continually, we need to install the school dental health room and need to systemize continuous dental health care system for high school students, along with development of various school dental health education programs, by vitalizing prevention based school dental health education.

Association between sleep habits and symptoms of oral disease in adolescents: the 2017 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey

“…This study surveyed self-report of oral disease symptoms without assessing actual disease appearance. However, multiple studies have used self-reported oral symptoms as a reliable marker for actual disease appearance [ 25 – 27 ]. Therefore, it is plausible to suggest that the association between sleep duration and oral symptom experience (dental pain and hemorrhage) defined in this study is comparable to the literature results elaborated above.…”