Assessment of time taken to treat dental trauma in Nigerian children

Abstract

The clinical time for management of dental injuries in children was relatively high and varied by type of injury.

Dental caries experience, care index and restorative index in children with learning disabilities and children without learning disabilities; a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…The 25 studies were geographically spread across 18 different countries: one study from each of Argentina [20]; Croatia [59]; Egypt [22]; Finland [60]; Hong Kong [49]; Jordan [15]; Korea [61]; Libya [23]; Sweden [24]; UAE [26]; UK [62]; Yemen [16]; and Portugal [18]; two conducted in Israel [21, 63], Saudi Arabia [17, 64] and Turkey [58, 65], and three in each of Brazil [25, 27, 28] and India [19, 29, 30]. The clinical settings ranged from specialist Paediatric dental clinics to school classrooms under natural light (see Additional file 1: Appendix A, B and C).…”

“…Nineteen studies had a main focus on one particular disability, with or without associated impairments. There were two distinct populations included in the studies; children with Downs syndrome ( n = 11 studies) [15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 29, 61, 63, 65] and children with autism ( n = 8 studies) [16, 19, 22, 23, 26, 30, 49, 58]. These accounted for over three quarters of the studies (19 out of 25).…”

“…Four studies [26, 29, 61, 65] were more prescriptive in their exclusion criteria; systemic disease, previous disease, medication use, recent local infection and recent dental prophylaxis precluded participation. Eleven studies failed to report any exclusion criteria [17, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28, 58–60, 62, 63]. However, representativeness of the studies was acceptable with reasonable overall matching between control group and study group populations by age, gender and socio-economic status although the number of children in the matched group was sometimes inflated.…”

“…There was no clear description of the person performing the clinical examination in three studies [18, 59, 62]. Data collection was by a single dentist in 17 studies [15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24–27, 29, 30, 49, 58, 60, 61, 63, 65], two dentists in four studies [17, 21, 23, 64] and three dentists in one study [28] and methods varied for assessing and recording caries prevalence; the majority ( n = 16 studies) used the World Health Organisation (WHO) caries detection system [15–17, 19–23, 26, 28, 29, 49, 58, 63, 65, 66], whilst alternative indices (DMF, NIDR, Rradike (1972) and Moller & Poulsen) were used in nine others [18, 24, 25, 27, 30, 59–62]. The threshold for caries recording was generally poorly reported and variable where stated.…”

Time expended on managing molar incisor hypomineralization in a pediatric dental clinic in Nigeria

“…The number of visits made to the clinic for the management of dental lesions diagnosed during the first dental visit was also recorded. The time required for diagnosis and treatment as defined by Ligali et al 19 was adopted for this study.…”