A Survey on the Dental Treatment for the Disable and Medically Compromised Children in Pediatric Dentists in Private Practice

2.Cooperation and Future Problem

Abstract

In order to investigate the actual status of the dental treatment for the disabled patients in private practice, we conducted questionnaire surveys and got answers from 450 specialists out of 1404 specialists in private practice that provided pediatric dentistry (a response rate of 32.1%).As the results, on the dental treatments of disabled children, 90% of the specialists of pediatric dentistry in private practice had the second or the third grade dental institution as an introduced dental hospital. Most of the introduced dental institutions were the university dental hospital. However, the specialists with the cooperation with the educational institutes for disabled children was slight 19.1%. Similarly, the specialists with the cooperation with the administration was 24.4%. Therefore, it was shown that the cooperation between the specialists in private practice and the educational institutes for the disabled children or the administration was insufficient. And it seemed that many problems of time, cost, physical strength and facility such as insurance systems which is not suitable for present state, limit in the practitioner and regional differences existed in the dental treatments of the disabled children by the special practitioners.