IMPE Abstracts

Bariatric surgery is becoming a modality of treatment for severe obesity in adolescents. Referral to surgery is governed by certain policies which mandates presence of certain comorbidities. Family history of bariatric surgery might encourage families to seek surgery referral for adolescents with severe obesity as anti-obesity medications are not widely available and lifestyle modifications are challenging. The study design is observational retrospective inclusive of patients ...

Introduction: Dental caries carries a high global prevalence particularly in children and adolescents with diabetes. Salivary flow rate and glucose levels have been implicated in the higher prevalence. However, some studies show controversial results of lower dental caries in children with diabetes compared to healthy children. There is lack of data on this topic in the Arab region where both diabetes and dental caries are common. We aim to compare the prevale...