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Oral Health Status Of Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities: A Review, Shahd Omar Al-Shamlan, Mutaz Mohammad, Dimitrios Papandreou
Oral Health Status Of Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities: A Review, Shahd Omar Al-Shamlan, Mutaz Mohammad, Dimitrios Papandreou
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© Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 2019. All Rights Reserved. BACKGROUND: Oral health reflects the overall health of an individual; it impacts the mental and physical well-being, quality of life, and social relations of an individual. Special Olympics (SO) athletes have been found to have poorer oral health, and high unmet treatment needs globally. Nine articles are included in this systematic review to determine the oral health status of Special Olympics athletes with intellectual disabilities. AIM: To identify the oral health status of athletes with intellectual disabilities who participated in the Special Olympics. METHODS: Electronic bibliographic databases (PubMed, …
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Reforming Organized Dentistry To Address Persistent Oral Health Disparities In The U.S., Aparna Chintapalli
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Reforming Organized Dentistry To Address Persistent Oral Health Disparities In The U.S., Aparna Chintapalli
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The importance of oral health has been largely neglected from the conventional standards of healthcare in terms of public understanding & prioritization, the industrial infrastructure, and the scope of prevention & early-intervention services. Its adjunctive locus to the field of medicine has lead to the bifurcation of the oral cavity from the rest of the human body. As a result of this divide, there have been multiple factors that have allowed socially stratified oral health outcomes to manifest. This thesis examines the determinants of oral health disparities through a multidisciplinary lens (i.e. biology, public policy, infrastructure), and offers evidence of …