Research for Arrangement of Dysphagia in a Dental Health Care Management System during Large-scale Disasters

Abstract

The Health Care Management System during Large-scale Disasters is being regulated, and so is the Dental Health Care Management System. However, it still is difficult to correspond to intractable diseases. The current status of the management system for dysphagia patients was surveyed in each dental healthcare system, and future tasks to discuss in proposed systems, since it is expected to manage dysphagia patients with an older population.

Possible aid for dysphagia patients is not only dental treatments, but also tests for dysphagia function, food instruction, and oral care, but which was not available at that time. However, 60% of them acknowledged the need. A proposed system which cooperates a dentists association and a hospital dental clinic, were accepted in some dental schools but not in clinics. The answers varied from hospital dental clinics and dentists associations.

Dysphagia functions and disorders are not treated just in dental fields. Even if functional tests of dysphagia are possible, there are problems how to serve reasonable food to feed. It is necessary to establish manuals and guidelines including regional cooperation aid systems of public services and dentists associations, such as above. In conclusion, it is urged to implement a multi-disciplinary education seminar, and information sharing.