sexual abuse: dental perspective

Sexual Abuse: Dental Perspective

Majority of dentists working in public and private health sector lack the adequate knowledge about recognition and reporting issues of suspected cases of child abuse presented clinically as sexual abuse. As mandated reporters, dental surgeons play a key role in recognizing child abuse (1). Sexual abuse cases may be presented as either erythematous, ulcerative, vesiculopustular, pseudo membranou...

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

7 seXual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a global phenomenon that occurs across cultures and socio-economic groupings with profound long-term physical and mental health consequences. Little is known about its prevalence and its treatment and prevention is under-researched. Globally, estimates show that between 7-37% of females and 5-10% of male children have experienced sexual abuse. In South Africa, one in six o...

14„child Sexual Abuse”

Sexual abuse is defined as the involvement in developmentally immature children or adolescents in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend, to which they are unable to give informed consent and that violate social taboos of family or other adult-child relationships. We present one of the more drastic and obvious cases of sexual abuse in adolescents – which has been observed in childh...