An Investigation into the Actual Condition of Outpatients at the Pediatric Dental

Clinic of Showa University Dental Hospital (Part 5) An Investigation into Actual Condition of the Handicapped Children (1989-1994)

Abstract

We investigated the actual condition of outpatients at the Pediatric Dental Clinic of Showa University Dental Hospital.
In this survey, the subjects were 1,015 handicapped children who had first visited the Dental Hospital from April 1989 to March 1994. The results were as follows:
1) The proportion of handicapped children was 24.6% of all new patients who had visited during these 5 years.
2) As for the age of the subjects at first visit,1 year-old and 2 year-s-old children represented a large percentage (52.6%).
3) They were classified into 4 groups according to their disorder: there were 251 children with physically or mentally handicapped,106 children with systemic disease,596 children with cleft lip and palate and 62 children with severe allergy.
4) For the course of treatment were selected oral hygiene instruction and caries control treatment, because most children were in dental stage of IC.
5) As for dental treatment, resin restoration was the most common treatment.