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Inside Dentistry: A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities
November 30, 2022
All of this leads to significant disparities. For CareQuest Institute for Oral Health's State of Oral Health Equity in America 2022 survey, individuals were asked if they or someone in their household had an intellectual or developmental disability, and those who answered yes were described as being "part of the IDD community." The results of the survey revealed that a higher percentage of individuals in the IDD community rated their oral health as fair or poor (38%) when compared with those outside of the IDD community (23%).