A THEMATIC SURVEY ON THE REPORTS PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

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Journal of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Dentistry 2002;29(2):270-277.
Published online May 31, 2002.

A THEMATIC SURVEY ON THE REPORTS PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

역대 대한소아치과학회지 게재논문의 분야별 분포에 대한 조사

김재문, 정태성, 김신

부산대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실

Abstract

Since founded in 1959, it's well known that the KAPD has pioneered in the researches and clinical aspects of pediatric dentistry in Korea. It's official journal, the Journal of the KAPD, was first published in 1974 and has pressed total 956 articles up to now(March, 2001). In this study, all the articles pressed in this journal have been surveyed, focussing in their main theme, their chronological and thematic distribution. The thematic classification was made with the reference of the previous studies and renowned textbooks in pediatric dentistry. And we obtained the results as follows: 1. The researches on dental materials and dental equipments have shown continuous increase throughout the period. 2. The researches on dental caries, caries prevention and systemic disorders have occupied relatively high proportion consistently. 3. The researches on malocclusions and cysts/minor surgery have shown increasing tendency in the second period, but are decreasing in the third period. 4. The researches on craniofacial growth/development, tooth development/eruption, developmental disorders of teeth, management of eruption space have shown decreasing tendency. 5. The researches on behavioral research, oral habits, occlusion of primary-mixed dentition have shown very low proportion, reaching no more than 1% throughout the period.

Key Words: Pediatric dentistry, The journal of KAPD, Thematic classification