Abstract
Changes in social environment have caused various changes in problems supporting juvenile among which child abuse can be noted. Child abuse can be classified into physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and psychological abuse.
The health centers of different cities and localities have been grappling with these kinds of abuse through mother-and-child health work mostly in the medical field. In dental field, the cases of parents who do not take their children to dentists for treatment can be considered as a foam of neglect. In order to clarify this situation, dental examination was carried out twice on 237 children between one to six years of age, cared for at day-care centers, to discover the status of neglect of caries, bad habits and other dental problems.
Results were as follow;
1. The results suggested th at the parent-child relationship affects the oral condition in children.
2. Children not yet neglected but may be in the near future were also identified.
There is no uniformity in recognizing abuse and it is difficult to have a com mon concept or standard in understanding abuse.
Particularly when ne glect is concerned, there is no direct evidence and it is often discovered indi rectly. Evaluation by a third party as to whether dental treatment is properly done, existence of serious caries, and the state of the parent-child relationship as well as recognition and evaluation of and attention to the condition of children at day-care centers were considered effective in supporting the bringing up children and consequently in preventing neglect.
