Abstract

  Early childhood caries is a significant public health problem that needs to be recognized by the health care professionals and the public, as in this condition the children’s teeth is susceptible to decay as soon as they erupt. Early childhood caries is a multifactorial infectious disease. There are many aspects of early childhood caries; tooth decay associated with feeding is recognized as one of the more severe manifestations of this syndrome. Unfortunately, this condition has a variable impact on a children’s lives involving difficulty in chewing leading to weight loss, impairment of the orofacial growth, difficulty in speech and aesthetics which hampers the complete physiological and psychological wellbeing. The following is a case report of a 4 and a half year old child with severe pain in most of the teeth and was diagnosed as a patient with early childhood caries, treatment was planned and full mouth rehabilitation was performed under general anaesthesia.

Keywords: Early Childhood Caries; Esthetic Management; General Anaesthesia

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Citation

Citation: Rupinder Bhatia., et al. "Full Mouth Rehabilitation of a Child with Severe Early Childhood Caries under General Anesthesia - A Case Report".Acta Scientific Dental Sciences 4.1 (2020): 46-49.

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Copyright: © 2020 Rupinder Bhatia., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.