Oral health in psychosis: An unmet need

Yang et al. (2018) have conducted an important and timely meta-analysis indicating that patients with psychosis are more likely to have missing, decayed or filled teeth, than general population samples. This health disparity is staggering and clearly unacceptable, and yet it has received very little attention in research and clinical arenas, evidenced by the identification of only nine eligible studies in this meta-analysis. It was revealing that none of the studies were conducted in the United States or United Kingdom, areas with otherwise strong psychosis-related research outputs.
Source: Schizophrenia Research - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research