[Contribution of day care general anaesthesia for dental care in children and handicapped patients].

Dental surgeons, pediatrists and doctors daily note the precocity and the importance of caries in children. This evolution makes essential the general anaesthesia in paediatric dentistry among the therapeutic arsenal of pedodontists. Fortunately, with the greatest knowledge of the child physiology, the better control of the anaesthetic operative protocols, general anaesthesia is very efficient. Furthermore, the development of the day care treatment now allows the access of these treatments to an increasingly large public. For pedodontists and anaesthetist, generals anaesthesia is essentially indicated for children with many decays, presenting behaviour disorders, a physical or cerebral handicap, a turmoil engraves general state. This operating mode aims to restore: This particular aspect of the dental practice remains still too little developed and cannot answer the demands. The necessity made it a rule to set up a theoretical and practical training. This specialized dentistry waits for recognition on behalf of supervisory organisms and a similar message spread by all nursing persons.