A Fatal Case of Infant Oral Mutilation Practice
Date
2021Author
Arthur Musakulu, Kemoli
Opondo, Immaculate Achieng
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Infant oral mutilation (IOM) is a traditional dental practice where traditional healers enucleate primary canine tooth buds in children in the hope of preventing or curing childhood illness. The method applied is heinous, painful, and carried out in unsterile environment, and this increases the morbidity and mortality of children from the communities where IOM is rife. The case report described here arose from a village, where an infant with a medical issue ended up in the hands of a local traditional healer who enucleated her four primary canine tooth buds. The traditional treatment resulted in the fatality of the child in <24 h of the procedure, a testimony that some traditional therapeutic procedures have no place in managing common childhood illnesses.
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Kemoli AM, Opondo IA. A Fatal Case of Infant Oral Mutilation Practice. Contemp Clin Dent. 2021 Jan-Mar;12(1):76-80. doi: 10.4103/ccd.ccd_319_20. Epub 2021 Mar 20. PMID: 33967543; PMCID: PMC8092082.Publisher
University of Nairobi
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