Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the dental situation of children who visited the pedodontics clinic of Nihon University at Dental-Hospital during the period from Jan.1983 to Dec.1987. The subject is the awareness in parents of 68 children who carried out the admisistraction of medical care. The results were as follows.
1) Recently we observed that the ratio of physically handicapped children was was on the increase among the first visit patients.
2) The priorcipal deseases of the physically handicapped children were cyclothymic, allergy and blood dyscreasia.
3) The majority of the patients visited for receiving caries treatment.
4) We presumed that the parents of the physically handicapped children showed deep concern for oral diseases.
