Problems of Dental Health Care Services and Use in Ekiti State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero Ekiti, Nigeria

Okunade R.a, Oluwatuyi Shegun Victor, Alagbada Blessing and Oluwatuyi Mayowa Funmilayo
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Okunade R.a: Department of Dental Health, Ekiti State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero, Nigeria
Oluwatuyi Shegun Victor: Department of Dental Health, Ekiti State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero, Nigeria
Alagbada Blessing: Department of Dental Health, Ekiti State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero, Nigeria
Oluwatuyi Mayowa Funmilayo: Department of Health Information Management, Ekiti State College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2020, vol. 7, issue 6, 244-248

Abstract: Dental health services faces varied challenges in Nigeria today as the public gives little or no attention to dental health care. The authors identified various factors and problems facing the use of dental health care facility in the study area. This also covers the attitude of users (Mainly Students) to dental health care services despite being a health institution. We adopted a stratified sampling technique to select our sample while making use of primary and secondary data; revealing the statistics of patients recorded to have utilized dental health facility in the College from 2016-2019. One hundred and Ninety two (192) Questionnaires was administered to find out the problems and challenges of dental health care usage in the study area, a rating scale was designed and distributed to the dental health personnel in the clinic. Data obtained were analyzed using tables and graphical representations. The result revealed low utilization of dental health care facility in the study area; identified factors are lack of or poor awareness of the importance of dental health care which is the most identified factor, ignorance, unaffordable cost, painful procedure of dental health care services among others hence, there is need to improve on dental health care awareness as an essential health care service while also encouraging the government to subsidize dental health care services to make it affordable to users.

Date: 2020
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