ASSESSMENT OF COMPLAINTS CREDIBILITY FOR DENTAL PATHOLOGY IN DISABLED CHILDREN WITH VARYING DEGREES OF MENTAL DEFICIENCY
This article analyzes the validity complaints about dental pathology of disabled children with varying degrees of mental retardation. Based on this study found that with increasing severity of hypoplasia of the intellectual sphere reliability complaints decreased from 73.38% to 0.7%. It is proved that the validity of the complaints of mentally retarded children is directly proportional to the degree of intellectual deficits and psychiatric status at the time of the visit to the dentist. It is shown and theorized that the major role in the diagnosis of dental disease in mentally retarded children should be given to the objective data (inspection, palpation, X-ray study of teeth, laboratory methods: physical and biochemical blood tests, etc.), and the subjective survey method (collecting complaints) in these patients is secondary to the diagnostic process.