The effect of vitamins on the gingival tissue of handicapped children

Dental Disease in Cerebral Palsied Children

“…Magnusson and de Val (1963) found that in children with hemiplegia the prevalence of caries was not appreciably different on the two sides, and that, compared with tetraplegics, hemiplegic children had more caries in the permanent dentition but less in the primary dentition. Weisman (1956) stated that athetoids had less gingival disease than spastics, yet Album (1957) felt that bruxism and attrition, commonly found in athetoids (Koster 1956), might be responsible for the high prevalence of gingival disease in athetoid children.…”