Masticatory efficiency in children with cerebral palsy.

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to compare quality of chewing in children with CP to the healthy controls, and determine whether the functional capacity of chewing units and overall dental health affect the quality of chewing.

Methods: A total of 86 were included in the investigation: 43 children with CP and 43 controls (13 girls aged 7-16 years and 30 boys aged 9-16 years) residents of the institutions for the children with special needs. Control group included the same number of children matched by age and gender for every child from the test group according to the pairing principle.

Psychosocial and Economic Status of the Parents with Children with and without Tooth Trauma.

Background: The main goal of this research is to try and understand influence of psychological and social factors in children with tendencies to repeat tooth trauma.

Subjects And Methods: Research included 147 patients, children of preschool and school age (88 boys and 59 girls). In the research patients were divided in two age groups: 5-8 and 9-12 years.

The Comparison of Malocclusion Prevalence Between Children with Cerebral Palsy and Healthy Children.

This study sets out to examine the prevalence of malocclusion and habits in a group of children with cerebral palsy and to compare it with a control group of healthy children. The presence of an anterior open bite was statistically significantly higher in the cerebral palsied group. The presence of aposterior crossbite was not significantly different between the examined groups, as was the case for a lingual crossbite.

Clinicopathological characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of melanoma in Serbia--the Melanoma Focus Study.

Background/aim: Treatment options for metastatic melanoma in Serbia are limited due to the lack of newly approved biologic agents and the lack of clinical studies. Also, there is a paucity of data regarding the treatment approaches in different tertiary centers and efficacy of available chemotherapy protocols. The aim of this study was to obtain more detailed data about treatment protocols in Serbia based on structured survey in tertiary oncology centers.

Dental caries experience in Croatian school children in Primorsko-Goranska county.

Background: Dental caries as an infectious disease is still a major oral public health issue. As documented in some recent studies, it has been recognized as the most common chronic childhood disease.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate caries prevalence, DMFT and dmft scores, as opposed to caries free children at the age of 6 years from a well developed western region of Primorsko-Goranska county.