Teething, a common subject of discussion among nursing mothers has been held responsible for a variety of childhood ailments by both health professionals and parents. It appears to be a social construct coined by society to express the experience the child goes through during early days of childhood. Teething to the dental profession is the biological expression of tooth movement, in a predominantly axial direction, from the tooth's developmental position within the jaws to its emergence in the oral cavity. Several studies have reported both health professionals and parents to attribute local and systematic disturbances to the eruption of the primary dentition. The mothers experience and understanding of teeting have not been reported on. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the mothers experience of their child's teething. The objectives of the study were to determine what mothers understood by the term teething / to establish the signs and symptoms mothers associate with teething / to ascertain the treatment sought by mothers for their child's teething / to investigate how mothers in different setting understand and respond to teething.

Teething, a common subject of discussion among nursing mothers has been held responsible for a variety of childhood ailments by both health professionals and parents. It appears to be a social construct coined by society to express the experience the child goes through during early days of childhood. Teething to the dental profession is the biological expression of tooth movement, in a predominantly axial direction, from the tooth's developmental position within the jaws to its emergence in the oral cavity. Several studies have reported both health professionals and parents to attribute local and systematic disturbances to the eruption of the primary dentition. The mothers experience and understanding of teeting have not been reported on. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the mothers experience of their child's teething. The objectives of the study were to determine what mothers understood by the term teething / to establish the signs and symptoms mothers associate with teething / to ascertain the treatment sought by mothers for their child's teething / to investigate how mothers in different setting understand and respond to teething.

Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy, Technikon Natal, 2002. / The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative effectiveness of Homoeopathic Similimum against a Homoeopathic Complex (Chamomilla 30CH Belladonna 30CH and Scutellaria lateriflora 06) in the treatment of problematic primary dental eruption, thereby expanding on previous nornoeopathic research. This study was a double blind randomised clinical investigation, which compared a Homoeopathic Teething Complex with Homoeopathic Similimum treatment. Thirty infants were selected for this study if they were between the ages of four months and three years and experiencing problematic teething. The criteria for the study required that the infants involved exhibited the following signs and symptoms of teething: irritability, waking at night, biting and chewing objects, decreased appetite, increased thirst, diarrhoea without dehydration, hypersalivation, flushed cheeks or circumoral rash and swollen red gums. / M

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Dentistry, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).

Thesis (DR. P.H.)--University of Michigan.

Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, 1933.

Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, 1933.

Thesis (DR. P.H.)--University of Michigan.

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.D.S.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.