アブストラクト（14巻1/2号：The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College）

The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College

English

Title　： Oral Environment of Mentally or Physically Handicapped Persons - II : Dental Caries Incidence of Handicapped Persons in Our Pedodontic Clinic
Subtitle　： ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Authors　： Seiji Igarashi, Shigeru Watanabe, Hisae Baba*, Tokuro Ichida**
Authors（kana）　：
Organization　： Department of Pedodontics, School of Dentistry, Higashi Nippon Gakuen University, *Department of Oral Microbiology, School of Dentistry, Higashi Nippon Gakuen University, **Department of Oral Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Higashi Nippon Gakuen University
Journal　： The Bulletin of Kanagawa Dental College
Volume　： 14
Number　： 1/2
Page　： 27-35
Year/Month　： 1986 / 3
Article　： Original article
Publisher　： Kanagawa Odontological Society
Abstract　： [Abstract] In order to understand the oral environment of mentally or physically handicapped persons, we have tried a variety of approaches, and we surveyed and reported on the actual state of odontopathy of seriously handicapped persons in an asylum in the first report. Since then, we surveyed the actual state of the carious teeth of handicapped persons (most of them living at home) who came to our clinic. We hereby present our findings in this second report. Our clinic, established in April 1979, had received 1,115 patients including 65 (5.8%) handicapped persons in the five-year period ending March 1984. Nineteen (29.3%) of those handicapped subjects were babies or infants of three to five years old and the rest (70.7%) were of school age or over. The group consisted of 42 males (64.6%) and 23 females (35.4%). According to the types of disorders, the patients can be classified into three groups: the first group (physically handicapped) made up 13.8%; the second group (mental disorder), 67.7%; and the third group (organic disease or general chronic disorder), 18.5%. It can be said that mental retarded (MR), Down's syndrome or autism affected many of those handicapped persons. As for the state of caries incidence, the percentage of those with caries of the deciduous teeth and those with caries of the permanent ones was low in the third group, and the degree of caries was slight in the same group. On the other hand, as for the caries proceeding grade, the caries degree of C2 was found most frequently in both cases of the deciduous and permanent teeth. Concerning the patients treated in our clinic, the rates of df and DMF teeth corresponded to 72.9% and 51.3%, respectively, suggesting that handicapped patients who come to the hospital suffer more seriously from dental caries than those in an asylum, or normal, healthy persons.
Practice　： Dentistry
Keywords　： Handicapped Person, Caries Incidence