舌の水分量の検討

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It is important that dental hygienist education teaches a method to properly establish a patient health status. The purpose of this research is to determine the degree of mouth dryness by examining the tongue. The subjects were 46 female students with an average age of 19.4 years old. The subjects all attended Chiba College of Health Science. The amount of moisture of the tongue was measured using the oral moisture-checking device. They were normal group 27 person (58.7%), slight group 14 person (30.4%) and moderate group 5 person (10.9%). As a result of investigating the consciousness of the mouth dryness by a questionnaire, realizing persons were normal group 14 person (51.9%), slight group 11 person (78.6%) and moderate group 4 person (80.0%). The students with lowest amount of moisture had realized a drying of the mouth. It was suggested that the best way to measure the moisture of the tongue, was to use the oral moisture-checking device. The necessity of noticing even in the exploration of the mouth was recognized, because there was dryness in the mouth not only in elder people but young students as well.
千葉県立衛生短期大学の論文