Objectives. As the population of the elderly grows rapidly, the government has been providing the denture prosthetic program since 2002 to help improve the quality of their life. This study was to introduce data for improve denture prosthetic program by analyzing working location and awareness of public health center worker (dental hygienist) who are responsible for government subsidized denture prosthetic program. Methods. The survey of respondents are 52 of 71 dental hygienists performing a denture prosthetic program in a public health center located in 5 cities including Seoul, Gwang-ju, Gyeong-gi, Chonbuk and Kyongnam. The system of questioning is composed of 23 questions that are awareness according to location by the Likert scale. The responding subjects were divided into two groups; one group with at least 10 years of employment career and the other with less than 10 years and the data analysis using the chi-square tests. Results. Of the respondents, 80% indicated that the level of cooperation of the dentists was very high, irrespective of the population size of the region. Among the hygienists with more than 10 years of employment experience, 10.9% indicated the dentists`cooperation was high (p>0.05). The subjects in smaller cities have more favorable view of the oral healthcare program than those in larger cities by 34.5% (p＜0.05). The regular checkup rate for the denture prosthetic patients is approximately 30% respondents higher for the with more than 10 years of work experience (p<0.05). Approximately 80% of the denture prosthetic users complained about the inconvenience of using the denture (p>0.05). At least 85% of the denture users expressed that the quality of their life has improved as a result of using the denture prosthetic. Conclusions. The study indicated that we need to institute a system that regularly conducts the education on the use of denture prosthetics and evaluates the effects of oral healthcare program to improve the quality of life for the elderly.