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Objectives : The purpose of this study was to improve the practice level o n dental hygienists’infection preventionby examining the actual condition of dental hygienists’infection control and analyzing factors of having influenceupon this. Methods : A questionnaire survey was carried out from July 18, 2011 to August 26 targeting dental hygienists whowork at medical institutions where are located in Daegu, Busan and Ulsan Metropolitan Cities and Gyeongsang-nam·buk-do. After then, the following conclusions were obtained. Results : 1. As a result of surveying practice by item in the practice level of infection prevention, the items withhigh practice level in the management of infectious diseases we re surveyed to be 12 months(89.6%) for health-checkup cycle and to be having experience of vaccination(78.0%) for hepatitis type B. The items with high prac-tice level in the management and practice of washing hands were indicated to be in order of regularly papertowel(87.7%) and hands cleaning after regular medical examinati on(80.5%). In the item of the practice on wearingand managing individual protection equipment, regularly wearing (93.1%) rubber globes given washing implementswas indicated to be high. 2. As a result of analyzing working c areer, working institution, working region, andpractice level of infectious-disease management, the appearance of fulfilling infection control guidelines at med-ical institution and the experience of education for infection control were indicated to have difference dependingon working institution. Regularly health checkup was indicated to have difference depending on respondents'working career and working institution. 3. The whole average in the practice level of infection preventionaccording to working career, working institution, and working r egion was indicated to be 2.55 out of 3-pointperfection. 4. Wearing latex gloves was indicated to have statistically significant difference depending on workinginstitution(p<0.001) and working region(p<0.001). The exchange of latex gloves every patient and the use of paperapron had statistically significant difference depending on wor king region(p<0.001). 5. As a result of comparingthe frequency of using protection equipment for preventing infe ction according to the management of infectiousdiseases, the statistically significant difference was shown de pending on the appearance of infection controlguidelines at medical institution(p<0.001), the appearance of h aving experience of health checkup(p<0.01), andthe appearance of having experience of vaccination for hepatitis type B(p<0.05).Conclusions : The above-mentioned findings showed that the denture satisfacti on of the denture-wearing senior citi-zens was linked to their subjective oral health awareness. Ther efore it will be possible to improve denture-wearing

Infection control realities and relevant factors in dental hygienists