2007 Volume 27 Issue 4 Pages 284-289
To improve the quality of the postgraduate clinical training program, there is a need to increase the number of patients who accept examination by dentist-in-training. To understand the tendencies of patients who accepts a dentist-in-training, the first medical examination patients who visited the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry of Showa University Dental Hospital from April 2003 to March 2006 were investigated.
As the factors for classifying first medical examination patients, sex, age, main diseases, and visited month were categorized.
The first medical examination patients who accepted a dentist-in-training [PT] were 18% of all patients who had visited the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry [PW].
There were twice as many female patients as compared to male patients for both PW and PT. The age distribution of the patients in PW was 20 s female > 30 s female > 50 s female > 60 s female > 20 s male > others, while it was 20 s female > 20 s male > others in PT.
The number of patients categorized by primary diseases in PW were dental carious> periodontal disease > periapical disease > denture prosthesis, and dental carious > periodontal dis-ease > denture prosthesis > periapical disease in PT.
To increase the number of patients who accept a dentist-in-training, it was concluded that the substantiality of the number of specialists who can diagnosis and conduct medical treatment for acute symptoms should be improved in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry.
