Awareness of parents towards Teething

Parent beliefs about infant teething: a survey of Australian parents.

OBJECTIVE Parents ascribe many infant symptoms to teething, despite little evidence to support such an attribution. We report current parental beliefs about teething and its management in a suburban Australian setting. METHODOLOGY A written questionnaire was given to all English-speaking parents consecutively attending infant hearing testing sessions in one Melbourne municipality between Augu...

Teething revisited.

Teething as a disease entity has been diminished from its 19th century status as the major cause of infant mortality to its modest position today as a "waste basket" diagnosis. If past proves to be prologue, it will diminish further as more credible causes for undifferentiated fevers and other complaints are found. The 21st century may find teething consigned to the shelf along with miasma, hum...

The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey

OBJECTIVES Parents are increasingly searching the Internet to gather information about their children's health care. This study compared infant teething information obtained from publically employed pediatricians in Istanbul with that obtained from different Turkish websites (parenting, health, professional, news and commercial). METHODS This study had two parts. The first part used a descrip...

Late Teething in India

cut their teeth at a later age than that given in books. Out of 100 infants of varying ages, from 8 months to 2 years, 30, nearly one-third, had cut no teeth ; and out of 14 infants, S months' old, more than half, 8, had not commenced teething ; out of 27 infants one year old, 7 had not cut any tooth, 7 had cut 4, 6 had cut 6 teeth, and only one had 9. Though the statistics speak comparatively ...

Teething: facts and fiction.