| A SURVEY ON THE USING STATUS AND PERCEPTION OF PIT AND FISSURE SEALANT |
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Jung-In Choi, Young-Jae Kim, Jung-Wook Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee, Chong-Chul Kim, Se-Hyun Hahn, Ki-Taek Jang |
| Department of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Seoul National University |
| 치면열구전색제 사용실태와 인식에 관한 조사 |
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최정인, 김영재, 김정욱, 이상훈, 김종철, 한세현, 장기택 |
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서울대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 |
Correspondence:
Ki-Taek Jang, Tel: 02-2072-3819, Email: jangkt@snu.ac.kr
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Received: 16 June 2008 • Accepted: 12 November 2008 |
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| Abstract |
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The property of pit and fissure sealant has been improved and many studies on the bond strength, penetration, microleakage have been published. But there are few studies on the using status and perception of pit and fissure sealant within the country. Therefore, this study made a survey on it. Pedodontists and non-pedodontists were surveyed by interview. The Results were as follows; 1. On caries prevention effect, 96.7% of the pedodontists replied that sealants were effective on both permanent teeth and primary teeth. On the other hand, 13.5% of the non-pedodontists replied that sealants weren't effective on both. 2. All of the pedodontists and 27% of the non-pedodontists used rubber dams. 83.3% of the pedodontists and 40.5% of the non-pedodontists used bonding agents. 3. Non-pedodontists used enameloplasty more frequently than Pedodontists but the pattern was not significantly different. 4. The causes of sealant failures included salivary contamination, caries under sealant, low strength, low flowability, overfilling. 5. In the pedodontists, 90% replied that PRR application was desirable and PRR applications were more frequent than sealant application. |
| Key Words:
Pit and fissure sealant, Caries prevention effect, Pretreatment, Retreatment, Preventive resin restoration |
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