Research from Silla University in Dental Calculus Provides New Insights (Changes in Oral Health Behavior According to Dental Calculus Removal Health Insurance in Korea): Dental Diseases and Conditions – Dental Calculus

2023 APR 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in dental calculus. According to news originating from Busan, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Periodontal disease is a chronic disease that is increasing year by year.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Silla University: “Korea also recognizes the seriousness of periodontal disease and has been applying preventive scaling in the National Health Insurance since 2013 to prevent it. Studies confirming the effectiveness of such insurance coverage are very scarce. Therefore, this study intended to confirm the effect of such policy by comparing and analyzing the oral health characteristics and oral health behavior of the South Koreans before and after the scaling insurance. For all the analyses, complex sampling analysis with the stratification variable, clustering variable, and weight was applied. For a total of 40,945 people, the demographic characteristics, oral health characteristics, dental clinic use, brushing, and use of oral care supplies were compared through chi-square tests. Scaling insurance showed a positive effect (p < 0.05) on the unemployed and elderly people, who had lost their previous economic status; on smoking and willingness to quit smoking as well as on consultation on drinking problems; on dental-clinic use and oral examination in terms of utilization of dental clinics; and on brushing after lunch, before breakfast, and before sleeping.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The study results showed that the scaling rate was universalized, and there was a positive effect on willingness to quit smoking and undergo oral examination. An active reimbursement policy for oral health education is needed, however, if a substantial change in oral health behavior is to be achieved.”

For more information on this research see: Changes in Oral Health Behavior According to Dental Calculus Removal Health Insurance in Korea. Behavioral Sciences, 2023,13(4). (Behavioral Sciences - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci). The publisher for Behavioral Sciences is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040315.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Yu-Rin Kim, Department of Dental Hygiene, Silla University, 140 Baegyang-daero 700 Beon-gil, Sasang-gu, Busan 46958, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Hyun-Kyung Kang.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Yu-Rin Kim (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6440-6745), Hyun-Kyung Kang (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5550-241X). Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.