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The Pediatric Oral Health Access Program is a joint project of the California Dental Association and the California Society of Pediatric Dentistry. The results have been remarkable in terms of the number of underserved children who have received oral health services. What is less certain is the number of general dentists who, as a result of the training, have been able and willing to provide comprehensive care to more and younger children.
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Odontologia Geral/educação , Odontopediatria/educação , Controle Comportamental , California , Criança , Comportamento Infantil , Pré-Escolar , Assistência Odontológica Integral , Assistência Odontológica para Crianças , Assistência Odontológica para a Pessoa com Deficiência , Educação em Odontologia , Educação Continuada em Odontologia , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de Saúde , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Atenção Primária à Saúde , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde , Estados Unidos , Populações VulneráveisRESUMO
PHACES syndrome is an acronym for the syndromic presentation of Posterior fossa malformation, Hemangioma, Arterial anomalies, Coarctation of aorta/cardiac defects, Eye abnormalities and Sternal malformations. Infantile hemangiomas are the most common tumors of infancy. Regional odontodysplasia, commonly referred to as "ghost teeth", is a rare localized developmental malformation of enamel and dentin with varying levels of severity that results in unusual clinical and radiographic appearances of affected teeth. This report describes a rare case of a two-year-old Caucasian male diagnosed with PHACES syndrome also presenting with multi-regional odontodysplasia. Ten of twenty teeth were dysplastic. The patient was treated under general anesthesia in a hospital setting. All affected primary teeth were extracted due to sensitivity, abscess and extremely poor long-term prognosis. Moving forward, a long-term interdisciplinary approach will be necessary to address this child's dentition as it develops.
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Coartação Aórtica , Anormalidades do Olho , Síndromes Neurocutâneas , Odontodisplasia , Humanos , Masculino , Coartação Aórtica/complicações , Coartação Aórtica/diagnóstico por imagem , Odontodisplasia/diagnóstico por imagem , Anormalidades do Olho/complicações , Pré-Escolar , Síndromes Neurocutâneas/complicações , Fossa Craniana Posterior/anormalidades , Fossa Craniana Posterior/diagnóstico por imagem , Extração DentáriaRESUMO
Treatment of dental caries as an infectious disease will require a paradigm shift in the way dentists and other health care professionals approach prevention and management of the disease. Prevention of dental caries has relied upon patient cooperation and often requires significant lifestyle changes that are at best difficult to implement and maintain or at worst ignored. This paradigm shift in the etiology, prevention, and treatment of dental caries demands that clinicians redirect their energies and emphasis from the "surgical" approach to dental caries to a "medical" strategy that focuses on early (prenatal if possible) risk assessment of the mother and implementation of appropriate therapeutic intervention, including use of antimicrobials, risk assessment of infants at 6 months of age, and a reduction in the levels of caries-producing bacteria. This revolution in how dentists practice and think will require that they develop strategies and curriculum to "retrain" practicing dentists and to train current and future dental students and residents as well as other medical colleagues on the essentials of the paradigm shift.