ArticleBritish dental journal2016
Infant oral mutilation - a child protection issue?
Article in British dental journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Prevalence, Dental Complications, and Effects of Infant Oral Mutilation.International dental journal · 2024Pooled it
- Peripheral extremity gangrene following infant oral mutilation (Ebinyo): a case report from Northern Uganda.African health sciences · 2025Article
- Traditionally removed mandibular central incisors and oral health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study among adolescents in Maasai populated areas, Northern Tanzania.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Prevalence of Primary Tooth Extraction and Its Associated Factors Among Under-Five-Year-Old Children in Debre Tabor Town, North-Central Ethiopia: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of general medicine · 2023Article
- Infant oral mutilation: data collection, clinical management and public health guidelines.British dental journal · 2022Article
- The need for global safeguards for fundamental rights of children at risk of infant oral mutilation (IOM).BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Child refugees and asylum seekers: oral health and its place in the UK system.British dental journal · 2020Review
- The dental complications of canine tooth bud removal in 2-12 years old children in Northwest Ethiopia.BMC research notes · 2019Article
- Prevalence and dental effects of infant oral mutilation or Ebiino among 3-5 year-old children from a rural district in Uganda.BMC oral health · 2019Article
- Infant oral mutilation: A response to the subject - 'Infant oral mutilation'.British dental journal · 2019Article
- Prevalence and impact of infant oral mutilation on dental occlusion and oral health-related quality of life among Kenyan adolescents from Maasai Mara.BMC oral health · 2018Article
- Agony resulting from cultural practices of canine bud extraction among children under five years in selected slums of Makindye: a cross sectional study.BMC oral health · 2018Article
- Current status of nylon teeth myth in Tanzania: a cross sectional study.BMC oral health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Infant oral mutilation (IOM) is a primitive traditional practice involving the 'gouging out' of an infant's healthy primary tooth germs. This can lead to transmission of blood-borne diseases such as HIV/ AIDS, septicaemia and death. Other complications include eradication and/ or malformation of the child's permanent dentition. IOM is usually performed by village healers in low income countries as an accepted remedy for common childhood illness. The gingival swelling of the unerupted teeth is mistakenly thought to indicate the presence of 'tooth worms'. Crude methods to remove these are employed using unsterile tools. IOM has been reported in many African countries. More recently, some immigrants living in high income countries, such as the UK, have shown signs of IOM. Our aim is to raise awareness among clinicians about the existence of IOM practice being carried out among respective African immigrant groups. We encourage clinicians, particularly those working with paediatric patients to inform parents and carers of children with a history of IOM about the risks and consequences. As part of child safeguarding policies, dental practitioners and health care professionals should intervene if they are aware of any perceived plan that IOM is to be carried out in the future.
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