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Correlation between oral health status and smoking in soldiers

song-sook kim 1 YOON-SHIN KIM 2 JUNG MEE HEE 3 shim hyung soon 4

1신한대학교
2한양대학교
3수원과학대학
4광주보건대학교

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Objectives : The purpose of the study is to investigate the self awareness of oral health,dental calculus and gingivitis according to smoking in soldiers. Methods : A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 601 soldiers in Jeonnam militaryunit from April 7 to 23, 2013. The screening for oral examination was performed in the soldiers. The data were analyzed for frequency analysis and chi-square test by using SPSS 21.0 program. Results : The self awareness of smoking on oral health accounted for 27.0% in good statusin nonsmokers, 23.5% of the past smokers answered good, and 16.5% of the smokers answeredgood. Approximately, 68.7% had dental calculus(p<0.05). The smokers tended to have moregingivitis than the nonsmokers and the past smokers(p<0.05). Conclusions : Smokers had low level of self awareness of oral health than the nonsmokersand the past smokers.

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