Abstract
The purpose of this study was to establish a dental health guidance system that can be used at the 1.5-year-old health check-up in Onomichi. Computer software was developed to accumulate the data at 1.5-year-old and 3-year-old old health check-ups obtained by dental examination and a questionnaire. The results of 3-year-old dental examination performed the previous year and the results of a questionnaire of the same children at 1.5-year-old were utilized. The comments on the life style to improve dental health for each child was printed out as a dental health guide paper. A personal computer, a scanner, and a printer were used in the system. The 1.5-year-old dental health guidance based on the dental health guide paper of each child was started in 2000. It was shown that the system was effective and time saving. Since the data obtained at 1.5-year-old and 3-year-old dental examinations are accstored and utilized in the following year, the system can be applied even when the caries incidence of the area changes. Also it was suggested that the system could be applied to any area in Japan.
