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Oral Disease Prevention and Treatment for Children and Adolescents
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Oral Disease Prevention and Treatment for Children and Adolescents

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Dentistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2025 | Viewed by 1471

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tamara O. Perić

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Clinic for Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: cariology; minimum intervention oral care; glass-ionomer cements; dental traumatology; oral health research
Prof. Dr. Evgenija Marković

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Clinic for Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: prevention of oral diseases; prevention and treatment of malocclusions; oro-facial dysfunctions

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

“The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and the cause and prevention of disease” (Thomas A. Edison, 1903). Today, the future has become a reality. The best way to care for our patients is to prevent disease before it requires treatment. Good oral health has significant impact on an individual’s general health and well-being. By promoting preventive dental care, screening, and the early treatment of oral diseases in children and adolescents, we can establish a strong foundation for healthy adulthood. Despite the progress that has been made in oral health awareness and education over the last few decades, oral diseases remain among the leading chronic diseases in children. In addition to caries, the most prevalent oral disease, periodontal diseases and malocclusions have tremendous impacts on both oral and general health. There is a need to shift from the traditional invasive dental treatment of children to a more personalized approach.

For this Special Issue, we welcome submissions of research papers, communications, reviews, and case reports addressing the themes of epidemiology, analysis of oral health care for children, oral health education, and the identification, screening, effective prevention, and non-invasive strategies for the management of oral diseases and malocclusions.

Prof. Dr. Tamara O. Perić
Prof. Dr. Evgenija Marković
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • oral disease prevention
  • oral disease treatment
  • malocclusions
  • epidemiology
  • children
  • adolescents

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Real-World Evidence on the Prevalence of Molar Incisor Hypomineralization in School Children from Bucharest, Romania
by Beatrice Ciocan, Mihai Săndulescu and Rodica Luca
Children 2023, 10(9), 1563; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091563 - 16 Sep 2023
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Molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is an understudied and underrecognized clinical entity occurring in children. We performed a cross-sectional study to determine the real-world prevalence of MIH among school children undergoing routine dental checkups at one primary and middle school in Bucharest, Romania. Our [...] Read more.
Molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is an understudied and underrecognized clinical entity occurring in children. We performed a cross-sectional study to determine the real-world prevalence of MIH among school children undergoing routine dental checkups at one primary and middle school in Bucharest, Romania. Our study cohort consisted of 266 children with evaluable data, of which 143 (53.8%) were males, with a median age of 10 years old (interquartile range: 8–11 years). In this study cohort, we have identified a prevalence of 14.3% (n = 38 cases) of MIH. Among patients diagnosed with MIH, hypomineralizations were present in 47.4% of children on the maxillary first molar, 92.1% on the mandibular first molar, 94.7% on the maxillary incisor, 36.8% on the mandibular incisor, and 5.3% on the deciduous second molar. We identified the maxillary incisor and the mandibular first molar as the most important examined sites significantly associated with the presence of MIH (p < 0.0001 each), highlighting the importance of paying focused attention to these sites during routine dental care in children. In order to establish the diagnosis of MIH, findings of hypomineralization should be present on at least one permanent first molar, according to the case definition currently in use; this definition does not include findings on the incisors. Thus, our finding that hypomineralization of the maxillary incisors is significantly associated with MIH is particularly important. While incisor hypomineralization is not diagnostic of MIH, based on our results, we conclude that it should raise the suspicion of MIH and lead to an attentive examination of the permanent molars in order to establish timely diagnosis. Full article
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