1. Preventive strategies in oral health for special needs patients
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Denise Corridore, Edoardo Cavallè, Orlando Brugnoletti, Andrea Spota, Iole Vozza, Francesca Ripari, and Fabrizio Guerra
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,oral care ,health promotion ,Special needs ,General Medicine ,Disease ,Review Article ,Oral health ,medicine.disease ,Dental care ,Preventive care ,stomatognathic diseases ,Health promotion ,prevention ,Family medicine ,Intellectual disability ,Medicine ,Risk factor ,business ,special needs - Abstract
As regards to the most common oral disease in pediatric patients, intellectual disability is not a risk factor for caries disease itself, but it rather reduces the individual capability to self-care and therefore to his own oral care. Children suffering of systemic pathologies and/or with different stages of disability are to be considered at high risk for dental caries development. According to recent guidelines for oral health prevention in childhood, individual additional strategies for a preventive care should be applied for these patients. All the health providers, family and caregivers should be involved with the aim of being aware, motivated and informed on oral health issues, and a better access system to the dental care structure, both logistic, professional and economical should be assured.
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- 2016