Abstract
To evaluate the effects of long term dental care on institutionalized handicapped children, the conditions of the caries were examined before and after dental treatment was given. Also, the relationship with respect to the side effects of the general anesthesia and the incidence were tested statistically. The following results were obtained.
1) The number of the children who had undergone dental care and the rates of the filled teeth among the decayed teeth increased after dental treatment had commenced.
2) The number of children with filled deciduous teeth increased longitudinally.
3) The number of caries suffered by the cerebral palsyed children did not increase yearly but generally reached plateau after the second year.
4) The general anesthesia was mostly administered to children with cerebral palsy.
5) The anesthesic time were almost in one hour and restorative procedure for the permanent teeth were many.
6) The side effects after the general anesthesia were many of the pharynx pain, vomitting and the bleeding from the oral cavity, respectively.
7) The negative correlation between the incidence of the side effects and the past past time after the general anesthesia were gained with the 99 % correlation coefficient in the vomitting case.
