Abstract
We surveyed a consciousness regarding toothbrushing in 97 first year and 123 fifth year students and obtained the following results. 1. The number of times for toothbrushing in the two groups : the majority of the first year students (18.6%) answered "two times a day" and the fifth year students (47.2%) answered "more than three times". 2. The majority answer for toothbrushing time in the first year students (37.1 %) was "2 to 3 minutes" and the maiority in the fifth year students (54.5 %) was "over 3 minutes". 3. Most of the first year students answered that they use "1/3〜l/2" dentifrice on the toothbrush and most of the fifth year students answered "about 1/2". 4. In the two groups, most students answered that using less dentifrice makes brushing more satisfactory because a lot of foam does not mean that toothbrusing is done properly. 5. Students in both groups did not specify the main reason for choosing a dentifrice. The second reason given was to prevent dental caries and periodontal disease. 6. Some students do not use dentifrice, but we could not identify the reason in this study.
