Cerebral Palsy and Dental Anomalies

Abstract

His views were summed up in the article on the influence of pathological and difficult childbirth, prematurity and asphyxia of newborns on the mental and physical condition of children, especially with regard to deformities. Such motor disorders were called Little's disease until the canadian physician William Osler suggested using the term "cerebral palsy"in 1889. In the extensive monograph "Cerebral palsy in children", he also noted the connection between difficult childbirth and nervous system disorders in children. Infantile cerebral palsy as a separate nosological form that combines a variety of motor disorders of cerebral origin ' was first identified by the famous Viennese neurologist, psychiatrist and psychologist Sigmund Freud. In all previous publications of the nineteenth century on motor disorders in children, the term " cerebral palsy "was used only in combination with other terms (for example,"cerebral paralysis"). Nevertheless, the daily clinical practice of the second half of the XIX century needed to specify the terminology. In his monograph, Freud writes that the term "infantile cerebral palsy" combines "those pathological conditions that have long been known, and in which the paralysis is dominated by muscle rigidity or spontaneous muscle twitching."