Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
October 2000
Print ISSN:
1470-8558
Electronic ISSN:
1754-2758
Vol:
1
Issue:
1

Wheelchair for single transfer of disabled patients

Introduction The Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital is situated in South Warwickshire. It provides services for young adults and older people with severe physical disabilities caused by brain injury or a variety of diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone and ParkinsonÂ’s Disease. The Community Dental Service has a well-equipped dental surgery with full wheelchair access within the hospital and is part of the multidisciplinary team. It also provides a continuing care service for a considerable number of day patients living in their own or in nursing homes who have difficulties accessing care. The problems of providing good dental treatment for these people in their own wheelchairs are well known to both patients and dental staff. We do not have a hoist in the surgery to transfer these very vulnerable people into our dental chair, and in fact our chair does not give the necessary support for those with poor muscle tone, the clinically obese or amputees. Consequently, people in a supine position may be in danger from falling and injuring themselves. In the past, many patients with paralysis or unsteady gait had expressed their anxiety and discomfort at being obliged to move from the security of their own wheelchair to the dental chair and as a result treatment had often had to be restricted or abandoned.

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Authors
Gillian Walton

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