Children with ongoing special dental needs
Children with ongoing special dental needs
Children requiring dental management within a hospital environment may be
eligible to use the WCH paediatric dental services including preventative and
restorative dentistry, oral surgery, orthodontic care and individual care
management planning within multidisciplinary medical team. This includes
- children with a significant medical history predisposing them to special
dental needs
- children with existing medical conditions whose general health may be
compromised if oral health care is inadequate
- children for whom the provision of dental care is complicated by their
medical condition including
- congenital/acquired heart disease
- malignancy/oncology patients
- haematological disease, immune deficiency
- metabolic disease
- transplant patients
- Children with dental anomalies including
- amelogenesis or dentinogenesis imperfecta
- ectodermal dysplasia
- Children with congenital or acquired orofacial malformations including
- craniofacial malformations
- cleft lip and palate
- malocclusion
- orofacial pathology or trauma
- Children with sever or chronic disease or disability that compromises
their access to regular dental service including
- children recovering from long term illness needing assistance with diet
and preventative dental care
- dental problems within multidisciplinary medical management
- intellectual or development disability
- cerebral palsy
- autism.
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