Significance of oral health in persons with Down syndrome: A literature review

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-283

  Hennequin, M ^a   Faulks, D ^b   Veyrune, J L ^b   Bourdiol, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; BRUXISM; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DENTAL CARIES; DOWN SYNDROME; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALOCCLUSION; MASTICATION; MOUTH DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NERVE STIMULATION; ORTHODONTICS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWALLOWING; TONSILLECTOMY; TOOTH INFECTION; TOOTH MALFORMATION;

DEGLUTITION; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; MASTICATION; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; TOOTH DISEASES;

EID: 0032920684     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162299000596     Document Type: Review

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