Abstract
The supply of dental treatment for handicapped children is very small in Japan. One of the reasons for this is the anxiety of the dentist when he receives the handicapped for dental treatment. The anxiety must be resolved by the dentist by some means.
The autistic child has a lack of cooperation with dental treatment and poor interaction with the dentist. Therefore, the introduction of the dental treatment for the autistic child is difficult.
As a method to dissolve the anxiety, we have thought that the introduction of a screening test for their needful faculty to receive dental treatment is the most useful.
The aims of this study is to evaluate objectevely the daily behavior of the autistic child by CLAC-II, and to evaluate the explicit behavior of the child under treatment, and to make a screening test for their faculty to receive dental treatment by an examination or the relationship between two the estimations.
The subjects were 47 autistic children.
The results suggested that the subjects had individual differences in explicit behavior under dental treatment, and so the subjects were grouped into 3 classes, the non-cooperative group (A), the transitional group (B), and the cooperative group (C).
The differences among the 3 groups respectively for their age and for the contents of dental treatment which they received were not found. C group showed a higher developmental index in some items of the CLAC-II test than A group. According as the reference to by using some items of the CLAC-II that were suggested differences between A group and C group as a reference, we have made a screening test whereby cooperation with treatment and explicit behavior at dental clinics can be estimated by their daily behavior.
