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As a result of medical progress,the average life-span of people in our country is longer,and the number of elderly people and patients suffering from chronic disease is also increasing. How to make them got a nice medical care and life quality is just the object of home care workers to strive for it. The aim of this study is going to draw up a set of easy and practical oral cleaning mehtod.Not only reduce the chances of oral infection and oral sickness of the home-care patierts,but make them have fresh mouth odour and the maincaretakers would be happy to look after initialively. The samples of this experiment were got from home-care patients of 3 hospitals in Kaohisung.We based ob sex,age,body function evaluation,the way of food taking hospitals,suffer from D.M.or not and tooth number to selcct samples and match them.In the one-month experimental period,the difference of oral mucosa and coating on the tongue before and after expe riment was judged by dentist;we also asked the main cares about the improve lerel of oral odour, htenanalysis ,then analysis and compare the data. The average rate of the samples is 63 years old,including 43.8% male and 56.2% female.In the respect of body function ,the rate of total dependent patients is 87.5% and the rate of gravely dependent patients is 12.5%.At the side of food taking method,the rate of patients that taking food by N-G tube is 87.5% and the rate of those by mouth is 12.5%.When asked the wishes to attend this experiment,the experimental group is obviously higher than the opposite broup,that means the caretakers alos want to improve patient''s oral health.The result shows that it''s no obvious improvance of patient''s oral mucosa between before and after the experiment,most of the patients remain invariable.But,the distribution of coated tongue and the odour of mouth of the experimental group are improved obviously,though the opposite group remains invariable.That means the cleansing method could remove the coating of the tongue and improve the halitosis effectively and be wouth to popularize it.
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