A Study on the Evaluation of the Dental Treatment Adaptability for the patient with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653296
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: The University of Tokushima
• Principal Investigator: KORI Yukiko 徳島大学, 大学病院, 講師 (70243722)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UEDA Kimiko 徳島大学, 大学病院, 助教 (40335807) ; NIJI Rie 徳島大学, 大学病院, 助教 (50274246) ; NAKAGAWA Hiroshi 徳島大学, 大学病院, 講師 (70192218) ; YOSHIOKA Masami 徳島大学, ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 准教授 (90243708)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 広汎性発達障害 / 歯科受診適応性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to establish a simple evaluation method of dental treatment adaptability and to develop support programs during dental treatment for the patient with PDD. The patients who recommended special treatment were strongly correlated with the categories of “low cognitive” and “high sensibility” in this questionnaire. This result indicated that both “low cognitive” and “high sensibility” should be remarkable categories for the dental treatment of the patient with PDD. Furthermore, these patients showed high score of the salivary amylase level.Our questionnaire and the salivary amylase test could be useful simple evaluation methods for the dental treatment adaptability of patient with PDD.

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小児歯科学