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DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

1. Jukić J, Škrinjarić I, Škrinjarić K, Ulovec Z. Value of Oro-Dental and Physical Minor Anomalies in the Discrimination of Children with Developmental Disorders/Impaired Development. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2004;38(4):299-311.
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   Title in English:	Value of Oro-Dental and Physical Minor Anomalies in the Discrimination of Children with Developmental Disorders/Impaired Development
   Title in Croatian:	Vrijednost orodentalnih i tjelesnih minor anomalija u diskriminaciji djece sa smetnjama u razvoju
   Type of Article:	original scientific paper
   MeSH:	MAXILLOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES CHILD TOOTH ABNORMALITIES
   Abstract:	The incidence of oral and physical minor anomalies is higher in children with developmental disorders compared with healthy children. The aim of this study was to determine the possibility of discriminating children with developmental disorders from healthy children on the basis of oro-dental and physical minor anomalies. The study was performed on a sample of 303 children with developmental disorders (DD) and a control group of 303 healthy children (HC). The sample of children with developmental disorders comprised 176 mentally retarded children (MR), 70 children with impaired hearing (IH) (partially deaf and deaf), and 57 children with impaired vision (IV) (partially blind and blind). The control group consisted of 303 healthy children of the same age and sex. Multivariate discriminate analysis was performed in the manifest space of 18 oro-dental and physical minor anomalies. The initial space of 18 original variables was reduced to three discriminative functions. Clear discrimination and great distance was determined between the centroids of the control group and the groups of children with developmental disorders. The first two discriminate variables are significant for discrimination between the groups, and they explain 95.7% of the total variance. The first variable contains 87.2% of the information and is defined by oro-dental and toe anomalies. The second variable explains 8.5% of the total variability, and is defined by dental and auricle anomalies. The third function, which is not significant, contains just 4.3% of the total variability. The discriminate functions obtained enable clear discrimination between the three groups of children with developmental disorders, but not clear mutual discrimination of individual entities within the groups of children with developmental disorders.

2. Jukić J, Škrinjarić I, Glavina D, Ulovec Z. The Prevalence of Oral and Dental Anomalies in Children with Development Disturbances. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2002;36(1):71-83.
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   Title in English:	The Prevalence of Oral and Dental Anomalies in Children with Development Disturbances
   Title in Croatian:	Prevalencija oro-dentalnih anomalija u djece sa smetnjama u razvoju
   Type of Article:	original scientific paper
   MeSH:	TOOTH ABNORMALITIES DENTAL CARE FOR DISABLED DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
   Abstract:	The prevalence of oral and dental anomalies was assessed in children with developmental disturbances (DD). The study sample consisted of 606 children and young adults aged 5-20 years (303 DD and 303 control subjects). The group of DD children included 176 children with mental retardation (MR), 70 children with hearing impairment (HI), and 57 children with visual impairment (VI). The association of oral and dental anomalies with minor physical anomalies was studied. Significant differences were found between the two groups in the prevalence of oral and dental anomalies. Hypodontia was more common in DD children (9.2%) than in control subjects (2.0%) (p < 0.001). Median diastema was also more common in DD children than in control subjects (20.8% and 11.6%, respectively) (p < 0.002). The prevalence of maxillary labial frenum was higher in DD children (6.6%) than in control subjects (1.3%) (p < 0.001). Both groups showed a high association of labial frenum and median diastema. A significant association between hypodontia and microdontia was observed in control subjects. A high value of weighted Waldrop score (W) was obtained in the group of VI children. So, W was 6.00 in the group with microdontia, 5.43 in MR children with hypertrophic lingual frenum (ankyloglossia), 4.80 in HI children with dens invaginatus, and 4.45 in MR children with ankyloglossia. The high prevalence of oral and dental anomalies, and high weighted Waldrop score of minor anomalies in DD children suggests that developmental disturbances during early development in this group could be attributed to a common underlying factor.