Background: Review of post-operative morbidity reports for pediatric dental care under general anesthesia (GA) show great variations. Until now, no morbidity data has been available to estimate the safety of pediatric patients under GA for dental rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia. The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate post-operative complications associated with dental care under GA and (2) correlate morbidity reports with patient's characteristics, dental procedures, and hospital protocol.

Treating CSHCN under GA, with 3-month recall visits for the patients, had a significant long-term effect on their OHRQoL extending up to 12 months postoperatively.

The aim of the present study is to investigate dietary and feeding habits in a sample of preschool children with Severe Early Childhood Caries. The design followed a case control study; sixty children were selected, and another thirty caries free children were selected as controls. Children were healthy, diagnosed as Severe Early Childhood Caries, with age range 36-71 months. A clinical examination was done to measure decayed, missing and filled index. A questionnaire interview was performed to evaluate dietary habits, feeding habits and behavior. There was a highly significant differences between both groups regarding the dietary habits, mainly the frequency of eating sugar (p = 0.003), the eating frequency of salty snacks (fishfash, chips) (p = 0.006, p = 0.002), frequency of drinking flavored milk (p = 0.008), and the consumption of soda drinks (p = 0.001). A significant difference was found between both groups regarding the child feeding behavior, indicating increased risk of caries in a child who went to bed with bottle and who was fed at will (p = 0.000). Based on the sample of patient studied, it was concluded that snacks and sugar consumption between meals, night feeding and at will feeding are significant risk factors.

Aim:The present study was designed to determine whether maternal xylitol consumption through regular chewing of xylitol gums can affect the salivary mutans streptococci (MS), dental caries, and dental plaque levels of their children. Method: Study sample included 60 mother and child pairs with high salivary mutans streptococcus (MS) levels. Samples were randomly divided into experimental group (30 pairs) and control group (30 pairs). Mothers in the experimental group received xylitol chewing gum treatment three times/ day for three months, whereas the controls received fluoride varnish. Both groups received oral hygiene instructions, dietary counseling and restorative treatment. All children were examined after 6, 12 and 18 months from the initiation of the study to assess caries, plaque and salivary mutans streptococcus (MS) levels. Results showed that at 18 month the percent of children with high streptococcus levels in the control significantly increased when compared to the increase in the experimental group. Throughout the study, dmft scores of experimental children showed marginal non significant increase compared to controls that showed higher scores. Plaque scores revealed statistically non significant decrease among both groups. Conclusions: maternal xylitol consumption provided better preventive outcomes on salivary (MS) levels compared to fluoride varnish treatments.

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