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      Child Dental Neglect: A Short Review

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          Abstract

          Context:

          Child dental neglect is a terrible tragedy with a high prevalence. Dealing with this issue is important regarding psychological and physical health policies. The current review was conducted to provide health professionals insight into the different aspects of child dental neglect as reported in previous literature.

          Evidence Acquisition:

          Our review was prepared through an electronic search using Pub Med, Science Direct, Medline, Google, Cochran Library, Google Scholar and EMBASE databases. Relevant papers published since 2000 until now in English, discussing child dental neglect were retrieved. Both original and review papers were included. Eligible articles were fully read by the author. A data form was used to record useful findings.

          Results:

          Distinguishing the direct and indirect signs of dental neglect is the first step for improvement of this matter. The dental team are the main professionals who can improve parental knowledge about the consequences of child dental neglect. Victims suffer from short and long-term adverse outcomes. Collaborative attempts need to be made by different health professionals to deal with this problem.

          Conclusions:

          Child dental neglect has many long-term impacts. The main professionals who are responsible for identification, intervention and treatment of child dental neglect are dental practitioners. However, other professionals cannot ignore this task. Finally, child dental neglect, despite its derivative outcomes, may be a presentation of a broader maltreatment.

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          Characteristics of child dental neglect: a systematic review.

          Neglect of a child's oral health can lead to pain, poor growth and impaired quality of life. In populations where there is a high prevalence of dental caries, the determination of which children are experiencing dental neglect is challenging. This systematic review aims to identify the features of oral neglect in children.
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            Oral and dental aspects of child abuse and neglect.

            N Kellogg, (2005)
            In all 50 states, physicians and dentists are required to report suspected cases of abuse and neglect to social service or law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this report is to review the oral and dental aspects of physical and sexual abuse and dental neglect and the role of physicians and dentists in evaluating such conditions. This report addresses the evaluation of bite marks as well as perioral and intraoral injuries, infections, and diseases that may cause suspicion for child abuse or neglect. Physicians receive minimal training in oral health and dental injury and disease and, thus, may not detect dental aspects of abuse or neglect as readily as they do child abuse and neglect involving other areas of the body. Therefore, physicians and dentists are encouraged to collaborate to increase the prevention, detection, and treatment of these conditions.
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              Safeguarding children in dentistry: 2. Do paediatric dentists neglect child dental neglect?

              In this second part of a two-part report, further findings of a postal questionnaire sent in March 2005 to dentists with an interest in paediatric dentistry working in varied UK settings are presented and discussed in the context of current multi-agency good practice in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Using insights gained from a survey of self-reported management of children with neglected dentitions, this paper explores whether paediatric dentists neglect child dental neglect. The authors conclude that current practice already includes much that contributes to promoting children's oral health and wellbeing. However, in a society where children continue to suffer as a result of abuse and neglect, they warn that improvements are needed in communication between dentists and other health and social care professionals if children's welfare is to be safeguarded and promoted effectively and future tragedies avoided.
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                Journal
                Int J High Risk Behav Addict
                Int J High Risk Behav Addict
                10.5812/ijhrba
                Kowsar
                International Journal of High Risk Behaviors & Addiction
                Kowsar
                2251-8711
                2251-872X
                21 September 2014
                December 2014
                : 3
                : 4
                : e21861
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Children and Adolescent Health Research Center, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran
                [2 ]Dental Research Center, School of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author: Nahid Ramazani, Children and Adolescent Health Research Center, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-5412423218, +98-9155009085, Fax: +98-5412414003, E-mail: ramazani_nahid@ 123456yahoo.com
                Article
                10.5812/ijhrba.21861
                4331660
                25741483
                593ab201-f6d1-49a4-b559-8d944f022bfd
                Copyright © 2014, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 08 July 2014
                : 25 August 2014
                : 27 August 2014
                Categories
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                dental care for children,child abuse,oral health,oral manifestations

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