Aims:To evaluate mothers experience about their infants' teething, which symptoms they have seen and attributed to teething and how they have acted to manage these symptoms. Material and Methods: In this study, A total of 200 mothers of children less than 18 months of age, who had at least one tooth and who came to the primary health care centers for vaccination of their children were asked to participate in this study. The first part of the questionnaires was to clarify the eruption time of the first primary tooth and in the other part the mothers were also asked about the symptoms they attributed to teething and the methods they used to relief the symptoms. Results: The mean eruption time of the first tooth of the infants was 6.9 ± 2 months, with a range of 4 -18 months. All of the mothers reported that their children had suffered from at least one of the symptoms that were mentioned in the questionnaire. The prevalence of teething symptoms distributed according to the age groups demonstrated that fever, irritability, sleep disturbance and lose of appetite were significantly highest in (below 6) months age group, while diarrhea, dribbling, runny nose, vomiting, cough, diaper rash and smelly urine were significantly highest in (6 -12) months age group. Conclusion: It is commonly thought that teething in infants can cause a variety of signs and symptoms. In this study all the mothers believed that teething is associated with the appearance of symptoms, some of which are minor and related to discomfort, while others are physical illness.
Aims:To evaluate the effectiveness of some nursing caries factors related to presentation such as gender variation, pattern of feeding habits, parent's education and area of residence through a random sample of preschool children in Mosul City. Materials and Methods: A sample of 271 children was selected from 2-5 year olds, attending the Pedodontic clinic of Dentistry College at Mosul University and some others private dental clinic in Mosul City. For each child, clinical exanimation was performed on dental chair. The examination was conducted with a visual and non tactile technique. The criterion used for nursing caries was the presence of caries on the labial or lingual surfaces (smooth surface) of at least two maxillary incisors with absence of caries in mandibular incisors. The questionnaire was designed to collect general information on each child: name, age, gender as well as questions including area of residence (rural or urban) and parental education levels. Dietary information sought included past and current infant feeding practices either; breast feeding, bottle feeding or mixed of both. Chi -square (X2) test was used to determine the gender differences for each group and between total samples of different groups. The differences were considered significant at p ≤ 0.05. Results: A total of 271 children with nursing caries, 146 (53.87%) males and 125 (46.13%) females of 2 -5 years old were included in this study. The higher number of children was from rural area than those from the urban area with significant difference (p≤ 0.05) between them. Concerning parents' education, nursing caries was significantly the higher amongst children of mothers and fathers with the lowest level of education. The lowest percentages of children were seen in the children of parents educated to beyond college level. The higher number of children was of breast feeding group followed by bottle feeding group and mixed feeding group with a significant difference (p≤ 0.05) between breast feeding and mixed feeding groups only. Meanwhile, there was no significant difference (p>0.05) between different genders among all variables groups. Conclusions: The occurrence of nursing caries in preschool children appears to vary significantly with respect to the area of residence, parental education and feeding habits groups. The improvement of different familial factors may have an impact on the oral health of children.
Aims:To identify the clinical picture and the association between dry socket and severe postoperative development with one of the systemic risk factors (typhoid fever). Materials and Methods: Twenty adult (both sexes) patients attended dental clinic searching for different dental treatments were studied. The clinical picture of 6 months period study was evaluated by completing two case sheet forms. They were diagnosed having dry sockets and severe postoperative pain. Blood samples were taken for bacteriological, serological and hematological study to diagnose typhoid fever. These tests included WAT, WFT, WBCs and blood culture. Results: Significant correlation existed between postoperative pain and typhoid fever examined by BC and the highest percentage was with dry socket (61.5%) followed by WFT (57.1%(, WAT (44.4%) using two tests for diagnosis showed that WFT and BC gave 97.9% positive for dry socket and Kappa test was 88%, while WAT and WBCs or WFT and WAT gave the least non significant correlation. Conclusion: There was a strong correlation between dry socket and typhoid fever and the most sensitive tests for diagnosis was BC followed by WFT, WBCs and WAT. Rectal and oral sedation with diazepam in children needed dental treatment Percentage (%)Al -Rafidain Dent J Vol. 12, No2, 2012 Rectal and oral sedation with diazepam in children needed dental treatment Al -Rafidain Dent J Vol. 12, No2, 2012 Al-Sandook TA, Delemi ZH, Al-Rawi BA Al -Rafidain Dent J Vol. 12, No2, 2012 Rectal and oral sedation with diazepam in children needed dental treatment Al -Rafidain Dent J
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