抄録
The number of patients with psychiatric disorders are increasing to approximately 360, 000 by 1991 in Japan. One of the features of many such patients is a lack of dental hygiene consciousness. In our first report, their routine brushing rate was just over 70%, the DMF index is worse than that of mentally healthy Japanese. However, few data are available about whether the severity of the main disease in closely related to changes in dental condition or not. We surveyed and composed the DMF index, gingival condition and brushing rate among wards. The surveyed hospital was composed of 9 wards, six of them open wards and the rest of them closed. The DMF index is higher in closed wards than in open wards, the gingival condition was worse at the incisors than molars and the tooth brushing rate closed wards showed an extremely lower level than in the open wards.
