Evaluation of oral health status in a sample of autistic male children | ||
| Journal of baghdad college of dentistry | ||
| Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 2, August 2012, Pages 62-65 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mayyadah H. Rashid; Raja H. Al-Jubouri | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder, presents in early childhood, characterized by severe impairments in socialization, communication and behavior. Autism is considered a multi-factorial disorder that is influenced by genetic, environmental, and immunological factors with oxidative stress as a mechanism linking these factors. Assessment of any oral manifestations has to be discovered, evaluated and measured in autistics to be used as a potential diagnostic. Materials and methods: Oral health status:(DMFT) for permanent teeth, (dmft)for deciduous teeth and gingival indices were estimated for 58 individuals aged (2-13) years, twenty nine of them were autistics and twenty nine were sex and age matched healthy controls. Results: The results of this study showed that Iraqi autistic children sample was more likely to be caries-free compared with healthy sample. Conclusion: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were more likely to be caries-free, had lower DMFT dmft and GI scores than did their unaffected peer and can be used in autism spectrum disorder prediction to a limited extent. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Autism spectrum disorder; Oral health status | ||
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