ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
The Oral Health Inequities between Special Needs Children and Normal Children in Asia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Oral health disorders among visually impaired children in South Asian countries: a systematic review.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
- Disabilities and Disparities in Oral Health-Related Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis in Saudi Arabia.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
- Oral health status of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Oral Health Promotion Among Students in Special Education Schools: Protocol for a Multicity Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
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- Dental service utilisation and perceptions amongst Indian rural children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026Article
- Oral health disparities among children with special healthcare needs: a comparative cross-sectional study.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026Article
- Evaluation of oral health conditions among children with special health care needs using clinical records.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Policy integration of pediatric oral health: aligning medicine and dentistry for child well-being.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Review
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- Association Between Dental Caries Prevalence and Body Mass Index in Children with and Without Special Needs: A Comparative Study in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Multifactorial Analysis of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Case-Control Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Caregiver's Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Toward Special Needs Children, Zimbabwe.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry · 2025Article
- The use of general anesthesia for dental treatment of children with special healthcare needs in Alberta, Canada.International journal of paediatric dentistry · 2025Article
- Toward Equity in Oral Health: Thailand's 15-Year System-Level Initiative for People with Disabilities (2011 to 2025).Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dentistry · 2025Article
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- Oral Health Statuses of Children and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Umbrella Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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- Preventive care recommendations to promote health equity.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- International Adoption of Children with Special Needs in Spain.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
This meta-analysis aimed to analyze the oral health inequalities among special needs children during 2004-2019 in Asia to reveal the importance and the needs of establishing integrated and equitable special needs dentistry care system in Indonesia. PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Wiley Online Library were systematically searched for full-text observational studies published from 1 January 2004 to 15 January 2020, in English in Asia. Studies that included children under 18 years of age with special needs and compared them to healthy controls were selected. Study quality was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute 2017 Critical Appraisal Checklist. Risk of bias was assessed using the ROBINS-E tool. The decayed, missing, and filled permanent teeth (DMFT) index indicated that special needs children who suffer from intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder had significantly more caries than normal children (
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