Pengembalian fungsi pengunyahan pada anak dengan kelainan cerebral palsy dan mild mental retardation

• Main Author: Muh. Harun Achmad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hasanuddin University 2008-04-01
• Series: Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science
• Subjects: Cerebral palsy, mental retardation, frame denture
• Online Access: http://jdmfs.org/index.php/jdmfs/article/view/193

Cerebral palsy is the condition marked by paralysis, weakness, inability coordination or other deviation of motoric function, especially muscles. While mental retardation is development disturbance especially in functions and the intellectual capacity. From the dentistry point of view, the paient had many disturbances because the decreasing of the capacity, include maintenance of the oral dental health. In fact, the requirements in oral and dental health care were not different from other patients, but the implementation usually difficult. Dental care was influenced by several points, psychology, physical, and emotion. The aim of this case study is to report considerations in caring inpatient, improving the chewing function and esthetics and increased patient’s self confidence. This case represents a 17 years old man with the cerebral palsy and mild mental retardation, came to the Teeth and Mouth Clinic of YPAC Jakarta to make denture. He complained his chewing abilitiy, and appearance because disturbanced and decreased his self-confidence. In this case, the patient was made frame denture to the teeth 41 to 45, because the ridge had been lost as a result of losing teeth many years ago.after the therapy, it can be concluded that the difficulty in handling the special need children patient could be overcome if the dentist studied the characteristics of the manifestation of his physical and psychological situation of the public well. Professionally a dentist could determine the attitude before planning an operational action on a sufferer.