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A Review of Incidence and Clinical Outcomes of Neonate with False Tooth Extraction
Author: Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu1, Neema Bizimana Gloria2, Getrude Uzoma Obeagu3,4, Esther U. Alum5,6 and P.C. Okechukwu Ugwu
Publisher: IAA Journal of Scientific Research
Published: 2023
Section: School of Allied Health Sciences
Abstract
False tooth extraction is a cultural practice which have been reported in countries in Sub-Saharan as a management of fever, difficult in breastfeeding and diarrhoea in infants, and this has been thought to increase infant mortality. When false tooth is diagnosed it is advices before performing tooth extraction in neonate to wait for the commensal flora of the intestine to become established and to produce vitamin K, which is essential for the production of prothrombin in the liver. Thus, it is safer to wait until a child is 10 days old before extracting the tooth