Professional paper

Autistic children and dental care

Alenka Rajić ; Stomatološka klinika KBC Zagreb i Centar za autiza, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Goran Džingalašević ; Stomatološka klinika KBC Zagreb i Centar za autiza, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The problems encountered with autistic children in dental office are
presented. Following a review of autism in the light of the development of such a child, the treatment of autistic children with in dental prevention and in the office is described in detail. Activities during an academic year are tabularly presented, showing that collaboration between the Dental O ffice for Retarded Children and Center for Autism resulted in a decreased prevalence of caries in the total KEP from 3.3 to 1.3, i. e. the porcentage of successfully treated teeth increased by 190%; the primary dentition kp had been 3.3 per child without any treatment, whereas after a year 2.4 teeth per child were successfully treated. Thus, a combined treatment, provided by a dental team and a pedopsychiatric team together, can obviously result in good rehabilitation of oral health in autistic children.

Keywords

autism; dental care

Hrčak ID:

101314

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/101314

Publication date:

15.6.1989.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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