Facilitating dental care for autistic children

Children with autism have a higher risk for dental disease as a result of many factors, among them difficulty accessing preventive dental care. Dental care professionals often lack sufficient understanding of autism and prefer not to deal with the challenging behavior these children may exhibit in a dental setting. Many nonpharmacological approaches to managing such behavior exist, and parents often create their own approaches to handle everyday life based on their intimate knowledge of their child.

Source: Dental Abstracts - September 1, 2018 Category: Dentistry Tags: Inquiry Source Type: research