Measuring oral health impact among care home residents in Wales.

Conclusion: Compared with peers living in the community, both dentate and edentate care home residents are more likely to live with one or more impacts. Two simple questions related to 'Any problems and pain in your mouth?' and 'Do you have frequent dry mouth?' may help to target care home residents more likely to experience oral health impacts.
PMID: 28561552 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Community Dental Health - June 1, 2017 Category: Dentistry Tags: Community Dent Health Source Type: research