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A dental check-up was held at a special co-education school of deaf and dumb in Kolkata to find out whether impaired body function has any effect in their oral health status. First day, primary section and next day secondary section participated. Total one hundred and nine residential subjects were examined. All of them had profound (>90%) deafness. Age of the students was from 6 to 25-including both primary and secondary sections. A complete oral health status including orthodontic status was examined. Basic dental instruments-mouth mirror, explorer, cotton forceps, check retractor were used. Prior permission was taken from school authority and consent was taken from all the subjects before the examination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brief Background Psychiatric patients suffer from different types of dental problems; dental malocclusion is a part of it. The paper presents the results of a study carried out to determine the relationship between behavioural abnormalities and myofunctional growth disturbances resulting in occlusion abnormalities in psychiatric patients. Materials and Methods A total of fifty psychiatric patients irrespective of age, gender, and socio-economic status divided into eight groups were examined to evaluate their oral health status along with their habits and malocclusion. Results The results showed that most patients had normal occlusion. Posterior open bite was seen in patients having alcohol and substance dependence disorder, affective disorder and anxiety disorder, epilepsy and migraine. Of the five child and adolescent patients, three had child occlusion and two had Class I molar relationship, mental retardation with behavioural abnormality. Summary and Conclusions Psychiatric patients with emotional imbalances, uncontrolled neurobehavioural activities and lack of selfcaring suffered from different types of dental problems, including orthodontic problems, as compared to the general population due to unexpected irritabilities. Proper assessment of dental status with adequate sampling in each diagnostic category is required in future studies to understand the perspective of oral healthcare in these psychiatric patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brief Background: Psychiatric patients suffer from different types of dental problems; dental malocclusion is a part of it. The paper presents the results of a study carried out to determine the relationship between behavioural abnormalities and myofunctional growth disturbances resulting in occlusion abnormalities in psychiatric patients. Materials and Methods: A total of fifty psychiatric patients divided into eight groups were examined to evaluate their oral health status along with their habits and malocclusion. Results: The results revealed that 16 patients out of the 50 mentally ill (32%) suffered from Deweys' modification class I malocclusion; 80% (40 patients) were under class I malocclusion; i.e., most of the patients were under normal occlusion; 02 patients (4%) each were under class II and class III malocclusion. Three cases of posterior open bite were seen in patients having Alcohol and Substance dependence disorder, Affective disorder and Anxiety disorder. One of these was due to extraction of molars of both sides. The other two cases were due to improper growth of mandible. Summary and Conclusions: The orthodontic problems of psychiatric patients are highlighted, a majority of them requiring treatment. Orthodontic treatment will provide a proper dento alveolar relationship which will help neural improvement. Besides malocclusion, Dewey's modification Class I was also required treatment for aesthetic, cosmetic and proper growth modification. Proper assessment of dental status with adequate sampling in each diagnostic category is required in future studies to understand the perspective of oral healthcare in these psychiatric patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]