Title

Concerns on oral health care services for adults with cognitive and intellectual disabilities

Authors

¹Meignana Arumugham Indiran, ²Aravind Kumar Subramanian, ¹Jayashri Prabakar*, ¹R. Pradeep Kumar, ¹D. Sri Sakthi & ¹L. Leelavathi

Affiliation

¹Department of Public Health Dentistry, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India; ²Department of Orthodontics, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 77, India

Email

Meignana Arumugham Indiran - drmei.sdc@saveetha.com; Aravind Kumar - aravindkumar@saveetha.com; Jayashri Prabakar - jayashri.sdc@saveetha.com;
R. Pradeep Kumar - drrpradeepkumar@gmail.com; D. Sri Sakthi - drsrisakthiphd@gmail.com; L. Leelavathi - karleela81@gmail.com, Corresponding author*

Article Type

Views

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

It is of interest to document data on oral health care services for adults with cognitive and intellectual disabilities. Hence, a study protocol was registered at the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) with registration number: CRD42020150759. We used PubMed, Science Direct, LILACS and SCIELO to collect data from known literature using keywords containing MESH (Medical Subject Headings) terms. The risk of bias rating for the collected data was calculated using the Newcastle-Ottawa assessment Scale. The AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare, Research and Quality) was used for classifying the level of evidence in the collected data. Analysis of available data shows that there is a lack of dentists with adequate skills to treat people with
disabilities resulting in high cost for dental treatment. Thus, we conclude that inconvenient location of dental clinic, lack of dentists willing to treat people with disabilities and attitude of dental staff towards people with learning disabilities were considered as barriers and challenges faced for dental health service utilization in this context.

Keywords

Oral health, dental utilization, barriers, Adults, intellectual disabilities, cognitive disabilities.

Citation

Arumugham Indiran et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 974-982 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.