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Self-driven Jaw Expanders in Special Needs

Rapid Maxilla Expansion Your upper jaw bone forms in two halves joined together by a palate suture. These sutures close as early as when a patient reaches 12–13 years of age. Once the adult bone structure is set it can no longer undergo expansion unless it is assisted by a surgeon. The chances of successfully expanding the maxillary bony base, therefore, decline with the patient’s age. When the…

Good Gut Bugs Good To Replace Oral Bugs

Eric Metchnikoff proposed that people who consumed fermented food containing lactic acid bacteria lived longer and stronger. No guesses on why people from Bulgaria, Korea have a healthy and longer life. Good bacteria can eliminate toxins and free radicals that can damage skin and cause early signs of aging. They can fight bad bacteria linked to leaky gut, inflammation throughout body, including…

ABOUT THE CHILD WHO BLEEDS

Blood is a living tissue composed of solid and liquid parts. The solid part is made of white and red blood cells, and platelets. Disorder of blood can affect one or more of these parts and may lead to prolong bleeding episodes that are fatal in children if undiagnosed. Consensus shows 80% Indian suffer from life threatening blood disorder that remain undiagnosed due to unavailability of…

SILVER LINING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS

Children exhibit high caries prevalence under the age of 2-7 years old. Such high caries activity is caused by the acid producing bacteria in the plaque like Scardovia wiggesie, Lactobacillus salivarius, Streptococus mutans and Parascardovia denticolens.To counter this bacterial ingress silver was found to be indispensable for very many years. Perhaps the earliest use of silver was in the form of…

KID’S DENTIST FIGHT CANCER OF KIDS

Children with malignancy are at the increase risk of short and long term effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Treatment for cancer is directed mainly to rapidly dividing cells but children at the age of 2-3 years old have higher metabolic activity towards all the cells. This would mean the growth of actively dividing structures like bones, teeth and soft tissue are going to be hugely…

Disability, Specially Needs Nourishment

One billion people worldwide are malnourished, and around one billion live with a disability. According to UNICEF 2006, 5-6 million children under age of 5 years contribute to mortality rate because of high prevalence of malnutrition. This accounts to 10 children/ minute. Most of these disabilities weather physical or sensory like deafness, blindness, intellectual and mental health are results…

Cleft is a perfect defect that pushes you to put things straight.

The first human connection is established at birth when the infants breastfeed. Mother’s milk is also the first quantified nutrition that builds up child immunity and promotes growth. But one in every 1000 is devoid of this connect living with the birth defect of a cleft lip and palate.

Inability to breast feed is directly related to decrease milk production and health related problems of an…

When the tooth WAKES -UP!

One of the most common complication post a dental procedure under anaesthesia is lip biting.

Depending upon the duration(short and long acting)of anesthesia the restlessness may cause scratching, biting, sucking, playing and pinching of the anesthetized area resulting in swollen red, hot and painful lips, cheek and tongue that are misunderstood as infection. These chewed up areas may…

Disorder of neural development contributes to the lack of necessary manual dexterity. These lack of fine motor skills adds up to the difficulties of care givers and accounts for poor oral health among children with special needs.

Regular manual tooth brush depend on the user’s controlled movements but the presence of physical and cognitive disabilities among special needs can create…

AI Augmented Brushing For Special Needs

Disorder of neural development contributes to the lack of necessary manual dexterity. These lack of fine motor skills adds up to the difficulties of care givers and accounts for poor oral health among children with special needs.

Regular manual tooth brush depend on the user’s controlled movements but the presence of physical and cognitive disabilities among special needs can create…

Neglected Injuries of Special Needs.

Children with deficiency in motor,verbal,physical,mental, compromised adaptability, and behavior development are evidently more susceptible to injury compared to the able counterparts.Limitation and impairments potentiates risk, aggravates secondary conditions and accelerates disease processes.

Global estimates accounts for 12 million non fatal injuries which occur at home of which children…

FIRST DRINK BEFORE FIRST BIRTHDAY

Unborn slaughter (Infanticide) seeks no repentance.More so subjecting an unborn to one’s addiction is still a greater sin that has no absolution. Fetus is very sensitive to substance abuse due to its underdeveloped metabolism and inability to eliminate them.As a results of this, substances continue to magnify and concentrate to toxic level leading to permanent damage of developing fetus. Adding…

COVID PLOTS WITH KAWASAKI AGAINST CHILDREN

The recent reporting of Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C)above 5 years have left experts and researchers fluttered in desperation.Has COVID mutated again to affect the kids in a much more deadly form ? The question raises the alarm in the medical fraternity at a global scale.

While doctors of America are clueless, some wants to believe it to resemble rare Kawasaki disease…

William’s Elfin Have Happy Heart,This Heart Has No Cure!

The aorta is the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to rest of the body. Just before birth this vessels gets constricted(stenosis)and goes undetected many a times. JCP William in 1961 was the first to correlate this defect with mental retardation. Later Beuren also noticed a subsequent heart defect causing narrowing of pulmonary artery, the large blood vessels that takes blood…

From this day onwards, children with special healthcare needs will meet the world with the underlining unmet dental needs. It is a stipulated fact that children with special healthcare needs receive less preventive care, less restorative care and more extractions and they have higher rates of gingivitis and periodontal diseases. In the following and upcoming post we will know a little more of…