Survey on the effect of government paid denture project by the participating dentists

Kim,  Mi-Gyeong; Kim,  Mi-Ja; Yu,  Seung-Yeon; Lee,  Mi-Suk; Lee,  Yeong-Bok; Choe,  Yong-Geun

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 45(10); 2007 > Article

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 2007;45(10):641-650.
Published online October 31, 2007.

노인의치보철사업 참여 치과의사의 참여 만족도와 사업개선방안에 대한 연구

김미경¹, 김미자², 유승연³, 이미숙⁴, 이영복⁵, 최용근⁶

^¹서울시 영등포구 보건소
^²부산진구 보건소
^³서울시 강북구 보건소
^⁴서울시 성동구 보건소
^⁵서울시 서초구 보건소
^⁶Dental Data Center

Survey on the effect of government paid denture project by the participating dentists

Mi-Gyeong Kim¹, Mi-Ja Kim², Seung-Yeon Yu³, Mi-Suk Lee⁴, Yeong-Bok Lee⁵, Yong-Geun Choe⁶

Abstract

Few reports regarding the effect of government paid denture project for low-income elders evaluated by the participating dentists are available despite the project was launched in 2002. Thus, this study investigated the effect of the project evaluated by the participating dentists and suggested public health policies for the better development of the project. Survey questionnaire regarding desire to continue participation, motivation of the participation, list of complaints, wish of the payment increase, and wish of the abutment crown increase were completed by 117 dentists in Seoul and Pusan. 78.6% of them desired to continue the participation while 16.2 % of them did not. When the motivation of participation was the service for the society, they tended to show the desire of continuing participation. Half of them were satisfied with the current payment(50.4%), while the other 47.9% did not. Complicated oral health status(48.7%), poor cooperation of patients(8.5%) and too frequent after cares low payment(6.8%) were complained. Payment increase compensating the addition of preprosthetic procedures for the complicated oral health status and the after cares was desired. Also, more thorough education regarding the denture project for the patients by the public health center is needed to alleviate the inconvenience of the participating dentists.

Key Words: government paid denture project;