Sugiyama Toshiko, Kameyama Atsushi, Yamakura Daiki, Morinaga Kazuki, Tsunoda Masatake
Division of General Dentistry, Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital, Japan.
Bull Tokyo Dent Coll. 2011;52(3):123-8. doi: 10.2209/tdcpublication.52.123.
Many patients visit oral malodor clinics because of malodors which are brought to their attention by friends and family, or because they note the behavior of people around them, they suspect a problem and develop a fear of having an oral malodor. However, only around 30% of such patients actually have levels of malodor high enough to bother other people. Many patients exhibit halitophobia symptoms, which present as self-perception of malodor, and thus have a strong obsession about their smell which results in distress. Here, we carried out a study on 300 outpatients who visited the Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital Odor Clinic. We used the Tokyo University Egogram (TEG) to elucidate character traits of affected outpatients and compared the occurrence of TEG types in these patients with those of normal individuals. We discovered that 10.4% of patients were A-dominant type, which was 10.6% lower than the 21.0% of normal individuals. On the other hand, 18.4% of patients were N-type (NP high, FC low), which was 9.9% higher than the 8.5% of normal individuals. Results revealed that very few of the malodor outpatients exhibited the trait that shows intelligence, calm judgment, and self-affirmation, and as a result enjoy their life. Instead, many of these patients tended to show high levels of kindness and appeared to be holding themselves back and exercising patience.
许多患者因朋友和家人提醒他们有口臭，或因注意到周围人的行为，怀疑自己有问题并开始担心自己有口臭，而去看口腔异味门诊。然而，这类患者中实际上只有约30%的人口臭程度高到足以影响他人。许多患者表现出恐臭症症状，即自我感觉有口臭，因此强烈痴迷于自己的气味，从而感到苦恼。在此，我们对300名前往东京齿科大学千叶医院异味门诊的门诊患者进行了一项研究。我们使用东京大学自我性格剖析图（TEG）来阐明受影响门诊患者的性格特征，并将这些患者中TEG类型的出现情况与正常个体进行比较。我们发现，10.4%的患者为A主导型，比正常个体的21.0%低10.6%。另一方面，18.4%的患者为N型（NP高，FC低），比正常个体的8.5%高9.9%。结果显示，有口臭的门诊患者中很少有人表现出显示智力、冷静判断和自我肯定并因此享受生活的特质。相反，这些患者中的许多人往往表现出高度的友善，似乎在克制自己并表现出耐心。
