The surveillance of staffs’ dental health at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital

Abstract

Problem/ background : The adult have certain risks for dental caries and periodontal diseases which need dental health surveillance to define the situation for effective dental health planning.

Research objective : To survey the status of staffs’ dental health at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital in 2007

Setting : Department of dentistry at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital

Research design : Descriptive study

Patients/materials : The subjects were three hundred and fifty staff members, recruited from a simple random sampling from dental health investigation in July - August 2007.

Methods : The researcher conducted the instrument and the level of reliability was 0.90. The instrument contents consisted of WHO Oral Health Assessment Form (1996 simplified), the Graiger’s severity index and the gingival status. The level of the inter-rater reliability of the two dentists who survey the staffs’ dental health was 0.81.

Results : Three hundred and fifty staff members which 80.29% were females and average age of 37.51 years old were surveyed. Conclusion The percentages of staffs that had dental caries were 67.14. The average DMFT was 10.17 teeth per individual staff members. The most of dental caries restorations were one surface with average 1.25 teeth per staff member. The 87.41% of staff members were gingivitis which 49.43% of staffs were plaque index grade 1 and 57.71% of staffs were gingival index grade 1 also. 17.71% of staffs members were calculas surface index grade 1 and had the average of 3.67 sextants per staff member out of 12 sextants.

Conclusion : The results would be used for staffs dental prevention and planning in the dental health program.