{"id":250,"date":"2018-07-10T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:08:57","slug":"dental-treatment-children-special-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/dental-treatment-children-special-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Treatment for Children With Special Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many of us are not aware that children with dental practices do vary for children with special needs and most of the times parents concentrate on their mental needs. Somewhere down the line dental needs take a back seat, at times due to ignorance about this fact as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, children with special needs are twice as likely as normal children to get dental issues. Hence, when you are a parent of a special child, you need to be twice as alert to check for any underlying symptoms of dental health and take due action against it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Children with special needs include children having physical, emotional, behavioral or developmental conditions of chronic nature and suffer from neurological disorders, vision and hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, down syndrome and more, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dental-Treatment-for-Children-With-Special-Needs.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dental-Treatment-for-Children-With-Special-Needs-300x143.png\" alt=\"Dental Treatment for Children With Special Needs\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dental-Treatment-for-Children-With-Special-Needs-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Dental-Treatment-for-Children-With-Special-Needs.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Common Oral Conditions in Special Needs Children<\/strong><br \/>\nIn general it is not easy to keep the teeth of children with special needs clean due to their irregular alignment and crowding as well. Some kids with special needs might also have conditions like cerebral palsy, connective tissue disorders or impaired immune systems.<br \/>\nAt times kids with special needs are on medications for a prolonged period of time. This also results in decay of tooth or gum tissue overgrowth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dental Advice and Preventive Care<\/strong><br \/>\nDental care needs attention right from the very beginning after birth. When the infant does not have teeth, using wet pads to clean the gum region helps and when the kid develops teeth, brushing them twice a day certainly helps not only in keeping the dental conditions at bay but also maintaining a daily routine. To maintain the health of your child\u2019s teeth use toothpastes that contain flouride and avoid excess intake of foods loaded with sugar or starch. Get your kid into a habit of brushing teeth after meals and rinsing properly with water in order to reduce the acidity of sugary foods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, it\u2019s not a big deal to manage the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dental health<\/a> of your little ones with special needs. With some mindfulness, preventive measures and support of your dentist you can avoid related issues with ease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RRDCH<\/strong> is a premier dental college and hospital in Bangalore offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/course\/bds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BDS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/courses\/mds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MDS<\/a>, Phd and certificate courses. One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrdch.org\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best Dental Colleges in Mysore Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Sourced from the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are not aware that children with dental practices do vary for children with special needs and most of the times parents concentrate on their mental needs. Somewhere down the line dental needs take a back seat, at times due to ignorance about this fact as well. 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