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Dry mouth in children: an under-reported condition?
From Volume 44, Issue 11, December 2017 | Pages 1057-1064
Article
The problem of dry mouth is well-recognized in adults but receives relatively little attention in the dental literature when it presents in children and young people.1 Prevalence has been shown to have a wide range in the population as a whole (0.9% to 46%) with a shortage of population-based studies carried out in younger age groups.2 There is a wide scope of potential underlying causes3,4 across all age groups (Table 1). An important difference, however, is that children do not always report xerostomia, the subjective feeling of oral dryness, even when salivary hypofunction is found to be severe.5 It is suggested that children with congenital salivary hypofunction do not readily perceive a problem compared to individuals whose oral environment alters in later life.6,7
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