The Purpose of this paper was to investigate the factors influencing subjective oral health indicators. The
questionnaires were administered to 215 dental clinic outpatients from march 21 to september 20, 2014 for
6 months. Subjective periodontal status of the patient was investigated, independent variables are general
characteristic, oral management behavior, subjective periodontal symptoms and dependent variable was
subjective periodontal symptoms. The subjective symptoms of periodontal were composed of 9 items, oral
management behavior and subjective periodontal symptoms were analyzed by crossover analysis. Also, the
factors affecting subjective periodontal symptoms were analyzed by simple linear regression analysis. As a
result, it was found that the experience of dental examination within 1year and subjective periodontal health consiousness had negative effects. Keywords : Subjective periodontal symptoms, oral management behavior,
periodontal health, Subjective periodontal health consiousness