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Prevalence and dental effects of infant oral mutilation or Ebiino among 3-5 year-old children from a rural district in Uganda.

Norman MusinguziArthur M KemoliIsaac Okullo
Published in: BMC oral health (2019)
The practice of Ebiino appears to be endemic within the communities in Rukungiri region in spite of the negative impacts in form of hypoplasia, midline shift, trauma, dental displacement and missing adjacent teeth that it had on the primary dentition of the child.
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