Anthropological Approach in Determined Dental Health Needs of New Dental Students (Kajian Antropologis Terhadap Mahasiswa Baru sebagai Prediktor Perawatan Rongga Mulut)

Abstract

Dental health needs is someone needs on dental health care to prevent and cure disease or defect. From the anthropological approach the needs on dental care depends on the culture where people came from that had been passed on generation to generation. The aim of this study is to describe the dental health care on new dental students in Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Jember from the anthropological approach. It was a descriptive survey study with quetionnare instrument of 50 new dental students. Result showed that chosen the faculty on their own could weight gain the new students. 34% students had a family dentist in their home town, so that only 28% checked their dental health every 6 months while 60% seen the dentist if they had any dental problems. It was a cultural influence that people only seen the dentists if there was any dental problems. Although the new students lived surrounding by dentists in the faculty, they treated their dental problems to dentist outside the faculty.