Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
March 2010
Print ISSN:
1470-8558
Vol:
11
Issue:
1

Establishing a procedure for managing poor standards of oral care in vulnerable and dependent adults

Vulnerable adults who, for reasons of impairment or disability, cannot achieve good oral hygiene for themselves may be dependent on paid carers for their oral care. When this care falls below the standard necessary to prevent oral disease, their oral and general health may suffer. If standards fail to improve despite intervention by the dental team and oral health continues to deteriorate, this could be seen as neglect and thus become an issue that requires liaison with the Safeguarding Adults team. This paper describes the development of a local procedure which aims to establish proper procedure in such cases, in the absence of national guidelines on this subject.

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Page Start
14
Page End
16
Authors
D Knibb

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