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Publications and source records attributed to W A Mueller.
Health care workers in any setting who deal with children should have a basic understanding of the management of dental emergencies. Immediate action is required to reimplant the avulsed permanent tooth while primary teeth are not reimplanted. Dental infections are usually due to pulpal pathosis secondary to caries or trauma. They are managed like any other infection using drainage, antibiotics and removal of the source.
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Successful management of hospital dental programs and general practice residencies is challenging in this era of cost containment. The efforts of two hospitals to strengthen their dental departments through greater efficiency of operation, cost controls, and improvements in a general practice residency program are described.
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Hypoxemia is recognized as a major complication of sedating pediatric dental patients. Traditional methods of patient monitoring show changes only with moderate to severe hypoxemia. This study compared pulse oximetry, a new monitoring technology, to traditional techniques in their ability to detect hypoxemia in sedated children. The results demonstrated that pulse oximetry is a more sensitive monitor of mild to moderate hypoxemia than measurements of heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, or visual observation for cyanosis in sedated pediatric dental patients.
Hallerman-Streiff syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by a peculiar bird facies, mandibular and maxillary hypoplasia, dyscephaly, cataracts, microphtalmia, hypotrichosis, skin atrophy, and short stature. Dental abnormalities are present in 80 percent of the cases and include malocclusion, crowding, severe caries, supernumerary and neonatal teeth, enamel hypoplasia, hypodontia, premature eruption of primary dentition, agenesis of permanent teeth, and anterior displacement or absence of condyles. Very few cases have been described in the dental literature. The predisposition to severe caries, together with other problems, makes it imperative that young patients be started in a strong prevention program as early as possible. This is a case report of a five-year-eleven-month-old white male who presented for a dental examination at The Children's Hospital in Denver, CO. The findings and recommendations for treatment are discussed.