[Dental treatment needed for the people in 156 Bangkok slums]

The survey of the dental treatment needed for the slum people in Bangkok was part of the mobile public health service program under the Bangkok Community Development Project, Ministry of University Affairs which was proposed by the Bangkok Representatives, Prachakorn Thai Party which aimed to provide the needed dental service to the slum people. There was a limited amount of time to carry out the survey, because the main purpose of the project was to provide the services, the survey data was obtained without any affect to the service time. From 156 slums and 40 primary schools in Bangkok 19,333 cases received the services. It was found that 15,681 cases needed scaling, 42,183 teeth needed filling and 36,923 teeth needed extractions. The Prevalence of tooth decay was 4.1 teeth per person. The clinician could carry out this survey without the need for high technical skill in Dental public health. This kind of data was enough for planning the dental service program. By doing this kind of work, we would have more information for improving our dental profession. The good and up to date data would bring us the unity in our dental profession.