Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide the basic date
which is needed to increase the adherence with dental revisits for
scaling after analyzing factors that influence the trend of adherence
with dental revisit for 7 years.
Methods: Research data was about 1471 patients who visited S dental clinic in Seoul at 2007 for scaling. Datas from January 2007 to December 2013 was collected. The subjects were divided into 7 groups by their trend of adherence with dental revisit for scaling : once, 2 times, 3～7 times. The collected data was analyzed using the SPSS WIN 18.0. To analyze factors affecting adherence with dental revisit for scaling, binary logistic regression analysis was performed. To know the difference between the number of remained teeth and tooth loss according to the adherence with dental revisit for scaling, one-way ANOVA and independent samples t-test was performed.
Results. The trend of dental revisit for scaling is significantly decreased from first time to second time, and after 3rd time dental revisits were steadily continued Factors affecting dental revisits for scaling are distance, family hospital, systemic disease, presence or absence of periodontal therapy, and the specific results are as follows. 10km as a criteria, patients who live in close range have 1.9 times higher probability to belong to a high dental revisits for scaling than those who live in long range. If the hospital is family hospital, these patients have 4.6 times higher probability to belong to a high dental revisits for scaling. The patients with systemic disease have 4.5 times higher probability to belong to a high dental revisits for scaling than the patients without systemic disease. The patients who got periodontal treatment have 4.9 times higher probability to belong to a high dental revisits for scaling than those who did not get periodontal treatment. As comparing tooth missing rate of the subjects, group 1 is 2.9 times higher than 3～7 groups. Providing dental service in accordance with the patients'' characteristics and increasing the dental revisits for scaling could give a positive influence to improvement of oral health.