Dental Caries Experience Amongst 3-15 Year Old Children with Heart Disease Attending Paediatric Cardiology Clinics in Nairobi Kenya (MADOHC) - Lupine Publishers

Dental Caries Experience Amongst 3-15 Year Old Children with Heart Disease Attending Paediatric Cardiology Clinics in Nairobi Kenya (MADOHC) - Lupine Publishers

Introduction: Heart diseases can be congenital or acquired [1]. Congenital heart defects can be due to an aberrant embryonic development of a normal structure with failure to progress beyond an early stage of embryonic development [1]. Congenital heart disease can be further classified as cyanotic or acyanotic. Acquired heart diseases are those conditions that occur at any age after birth [1]. They include rheumatic fever and infective bacterial endocarditis. Congenital Heart Disease occurs in about 1% live births. The incidence is higher in stillborn (3-4%) and about (10-25%). Congenital cardiac defects have a wide spectrum of severity in infants. With advances in both palliative and corrective surgery, the number of children with congenital heart defects surviving to adulthood has increased dramatically [1]. In the developing countries, the annual incidence of acute rheumatic fever is currently as high as 282 per 100,000 population. Worldwide, rheumatic heart disease remains the most common form of acquired valvular heart disease in all age groups. The disease accounts for as much as 50% of all cardiac admissions in many hospitals.

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