Failure on all fronts: Qualitative analysis of the oral health care experience in individuals with intellectual disability.
Yazan Mansour HassonaAhmad AljafariAla'a AtefLeen AbdalfattahMarie Therese HoseyPublished in: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry (2020)
Individuals with intellectual disability and their families are being failed at multiple levels of oral health care, leaving parents feeling frustrated, isolated, and sometimes helpless. Collaborative efforts are needed to train families to prevent oral health disease at home, establish better primary and secondary oral health care systems, and overcome wider cultural, social, and economic barriers.