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Abstract

Cerebral palsy is the condition marked by paralysis, weakness, inability coordination
or other deviation of motoric function, especially muscles. While mental retardation is
development disturbance especially in functions and the intellectual capacity. From
the dentistry point of view, the paient had many disturbances because the decreasing
of the capacity, include maintenance of the oral dental health. In fact, the
requirements in oral and dental health care were not different from other patients, but
the implementation usually difficult. Dental care was influenced by several points,
psychology, physical, and emotion. The aim of this case study is to report
considerations in caring inpatient, improving the chewing function and esthetics and
increased patient’s self confidence. This case represents a 17 years old man with the
cerebral palsy and mild mental retardation, came to the Teeth and Mouth Clinic of
YPAC Jakarta to make denture. He complained his chewing abilitiy, and appearance
because disturbanced and decreased his self-confidence. In this case, the patient was
made frame denture to the teeth 41 to 45, because the ridge had been lost as a result of
losing teeth many years ago.after the therapy, it can be concluded that the difficulty in
handling the special need children patient could be overcome if the dentist studied the
characteristics of the manifestation of his physical and psychological situation of the
public well. Professionally a dentist could determine the attitude before planning an
operational action on a sufferer.

Pages

47-56

Rights

©2016Muh. Harun Achmad

DOI

10.15562/jdmfs.v7i1.193

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