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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the second edition of the Special Issue “Oral Health and Care in Children”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Oral_Health_Care_Children.

Although dental care technology has generally improved in recent decades, oral diseases still affect a considerable number of children worldwide. Dental caries is the most common noncommunicable disease among children. The prevalence of early childhood caries is high in preschool children, particularly in developing countries. Traumatic dental injuries are not uncommon. Malocclusion caused by abnormal habits, aberrant soft tissue, and premature contact should be identified and corrected early. These oral diseases and conditions, if they remain untreated, can cause deleterious effects on children, such as pain and infection, interfered chewing ability, reduced nutrition intake, malocclusion, and the unsatisfactory growth as well as development of a child. To address oral health problems in children, dentists, dental researchers, and dental public health sectors should understand the oral health situations of children, assess their oral healthcare needs, and develop effective oral healthcare strategies.

This Special Issue welcomes original research, reviews, and case reports (with good-quality photos) related to oral health and care in children, which can include, but are not limited to, oral health promotion, the assessment or management of oral health diseases as well as conditions of children, oral healthcare strategies and programmes for children, and novel oral healthcare protocols for children. Oral healthcare strategies can be considered at both the individual and community levels.

This Special Issue will provide readers with up-to-date information on oral health and care in children and raise the awareness of clinical practitioners and dental researchers regarding the importance of children’s oral health and care.

Dr. Sherry Shiqian Gao
Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu
Guest Editors

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Survival Analysis and Risk Factors of Pulpectomy among Children with Severe Early Childhood Caries Treated under General Anesthesia: A Retrospective Study

by Shu-yang He, Jin-yi Li, Shan-shan Dai, Yu-hui Yang, Yi-feng Wen, Qing-yu Guo and Fei Liu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1191; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021191 - 09 Jan 2023

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Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to retrospectively evaluate the survival rate of pulpectomy performed under dental general anesthesia (DGA) through long-term follow-up and to explore the risk factors associated with treatment failure. Methods: The medical records of the children who were diagnosed with S-ECC and received pulpectomy treatment under general anesthesia (GA) from 1 August 2014 to 1 December 2019, in the Stomatological Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, were collected. Two dentistry postgraduates extracted the necessary information and filled in a predesigned excel form. Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The shared frailty model was used to explore possible factors affecting the success rate of pulpectomy in primary teeth. Results: A total of 381 children (mean age 3.49 ± 0.90) with S-ECC and 1220 teeth were included in the study, including 590 primary anterior teeth and 630 primary molars. The overall 35-month survival rate was 38.5%, which was 52.9% for anterior teeth and 31.1% for molars. The overall median survival time was 31 months, in which anterior teeth were 35 months and molars were 26 months. The older the children were, the greater the risk of treatment failure (HR 1.56, 95% CI 1.09, 2.24). The risk of pulpectomy failure of primary molars was 1.9 times that of primary anterior teeth (95% CI 1.36, 2.65) and the teeth with abnormal radiological findings before treatment was 1.41 times higher than that of teeth without imaging abnormalities (95% CI 1.74, 3.36). Conclusion: The survival rate of primary tooth pulpectomy is acceptable but decreased gradually with time. The failure rate of pulpectomy in primary molars is higher than that of primary anterior teeth. When the primary caries has extended to the pulp and resulted in a nonvital lesion, pulpectomy could be an option for maximum retention of the primary tooth. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Edition: Oral Health and Care in Children)

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