Open AccessEffectiveness of supervised oral health maintenance in hearing impaired and mute children- A parallel randomized controlled trial
Author(s) -
Sonia Pareek,
Anup Nagaraj,
Asif Yousuf,
Shravani Ganta,
Mansi Atri,
Kushpal Singh
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.159953
Subject(s) - medicine , tooth brushing , oral hygiene , randomized controlled trial , dentistry , oral health , affect (linguistics) , physical therapy , toothbrush , psychology , communication , brush , surgery , electrical engineering , engineering
Individuals with special needs may have great limitations in oral hygiene performance due to their potential motor, sensory, and intellectual disabilities. Thus, oral health care utilization is low among the disabled people. Hearing disorders affect the general behavior and impair the level of social functioning.