Need for dental care among medical staff working in the China Antarctic stations
Even though China Antarctic medical care has made huge progress, dental care has always been a neglected area. Dental health is well-known to be closely related with life quality and work efficiency. Hence, knowing the dental care situation there and providing ways to improve are urgently needed. We...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9987753 2023-05-15T13:38:02+02:00 Need for dental care among medical staff working in the China Antarctic stations Mi, Wenxiang Guo, Huayan Yu, Wanxian Wang, Shuo Pan, Ting Wang, Shaohai 2023-03-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987753/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36871248 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2179453 en eng Taylor & Francis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9987753/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36871248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2179453 © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Int J Circumpolar Health Original Research Article Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2179453 2023-03-12T02:02:59Z Even though China Antarctic medical care has made huge progress, dental care has always been a neglected area. Dental health is well-known to be closely related with life quality and work efficiency. Hence, knowing the dental care situation there and providing ways to improve are urgently needed. We choose doctors who worked in China Antarctic station as a window to see the whole picture by sending questionnaire. The results showed dental visits ranked second high, the ratio of doctors who got pre-departure dental knowledge education and screen is low. What is worse, none of them got any after-departure dental check. Their dental knowledge is not as good as we expect, and they were troubled by dental problems in Antarctic. Interestingly, most dental problems were treated by non-dentist with no essential equipment, but 2/3 of them were satisfied with the outcome. As for the dental-related diet and behaviour, snacks eating and alcohol drinking are the strongest predictors of dental pain and gum problem. Those findings are crucial to Antarctic dental care and research. Text Antarc* Antarctic Circumpolar Health PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic International Journal of Circumpolar Health 82 1 |
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Even though China Antarctic medical care has made huge progress, dental care has always been a neglected area. Dental health is well-known to be closely related with life quality and work efficiency. Hence, knowing the dental care situation there and providing ways to improve are urgently needed. We choose doctors who worked in China Antarctic station as a window to see the whole picture by sending questionnaire. The results showed dental visits ranked second high, the ratio of doctors who got pre-departure dental knowledge education and screen is low. What is worse, none of them got any after-departure dental check. Their dental knowledge is not as good as we expect, and they were troubled by dental problems in Antarctic. Interestingly, most dental problems were treated by non-dentist with no essential equipment, but 2/3 of them were satisfied with the outcome. As for the dental-related diet and behaviour, snacks eating and alcohol drinking are the strongest predictors of dental pain and gum problem. Those findings are crucial to Antarctic dental care and research. |
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