Residents in care homes 'missing out on dental care'
Getty ImagesThe warning comes after the Care Quality Commission found that residents did not always have access to dentists and were not getting the support they needed to look after their teeth.It comes as the British Dental Association highlighted a number of distressing cases of decay and neglect.These included a blind, 93-year-old woman with advanced dementia whose dentures had become stuck in her mouth because they had been left in for weeks and her gums had grown around them.
Around half did not provide training to their staff on oral health care, while nearly-three quarters of individual care plans did not cover oral health sufficiently.One-in-three said they could not always access dental care. However, figures obtained by the BDA under the Freedom of Information Act have suggested only one to two per cent of this population are given access to such services.
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