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Various unexpected emergency situations are likely to pose a threat to the life of patients during dental treatment. Appropriate coping to such situations by dental hygienists makes it possible to save their life, to prevent complications or to boost the possibility of recovery. Therefore dental hygienists should acquire professional knowledge and knowhow to give appropriate first aid.
The purpose of this study was to examine the state of dental emergency care among dental hygienists who received supplementary education provided to dental hygienists in the region of J on April 25, 2010. After a survey was conducted, the collected data were analyzed. The major findings of the study were as follows:
1. As for the career of the dental hygienists with emergency situation experiences and ways of emergency coping, their career had a statistically significant relationship to making a report to dentists.
Concerning the form of workplace and how to cope with emergency situations, whether dentists gave first aid or not had a statistically significant relationship to that.
2. Among the dental hygienists with emergency situation experiences, those whose duty was treatment cooperation often underwent emergency situations triggered by dental diseases or maxillofacial diseases, and there was a statistically significant relationship between career and the cause of emergency.
Various unexpected emergency situations are likely to pose a threat to the life of patients during dental treatment. Appropriate coping to such situations by dental hygienists makes it possible to save their life, to prevent complications or to boost the possibility of recovery. Therefore dental hygienists should acquire professional knowledge and knowhow to give appropriate first aid.
The purpose of this study was to examine the state of dental emergency care among dental hygienists who received supplementary education provided to dental hygienists in the region of J on April 25, 2010. After a survey was conducted, the collected data were analyzed. The major findings of the study were as follows:
1. As for the career of the dental hygienists with emergency situation experiences and ways of emergency coping, their career had a statistically significant relationship to making a report to dentists.
Concerning the form of workplace and how to cope with emergency situations, whether dentists gave first aid or not had a statistically significant relationship to that.
2. Among the dental hygienists with emergency situation experiences, those whose duty was treatment cooperation often underwent emergency situations triggered by dental diseases or maxillofacial diseases, and there was a statistically significant relationship between career and the cause of emergency.