Kemoli Arthur Musakulu, Opondo Immaculate Achieng
Department of Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya.
Contemp Clin Dent. 2021 Jan-Mar;12(1):76-80. doi: 10.4103/ccd.ccd_319_20. Epub 2021 Mar 20.
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.
婴儿口腔残害（IOM）是一种传统牙科做法，传统治疗师摘除儿童的乳尖牙牙胚，希望预防或治愈儿童疾病。所采用的方法极其恶劣、痛苦，且在不卫生的环境中进行，这增加了IOM盛行社区儿童的发病率和死亡率。此处描述的病例报告来自一个村庄，一名有医疗问题的婴儿最终落入当地传统治疗师手中，后者摘除了她的四个乳尖牙牙胚。传统治疗导致该儿童在治疗后不到24小时死亡，这证明一些传统治疗方法在治疗常见儿童疾病方面毫无用处。
