Oral Health Care of People with Learning Disabilities – updated guidance

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Updated Clinical Guidelines and Integrated Care Pathways for the Oral Health Care of People with Learning Disabilities are now available from the British Society for Disability and Oral Health (BSDH).

These guidelines were originally a joint
 initiative between the Development Group
 for Community Dental Practice of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of The Royal College of Surgeons of England and the British Society for Disability and Oral Health. The aim of these Guidelines is to improve the oral health of people with learning disabilities by increasing the knowledge and skills of all those involved in the provision of their care.

The guidelines have a wide target audience

 Everyone involved in the care of people with learning disabilities – including service users, their parents and families, carers
 and advocates, health and social service commissioners and providers, dental and health professionals, education and training establishments, private and voluntary sector organisations, and planners and politicians.

The authors hope that these guidelines will provide the foundation for local guidelines and protocols for this group of patients.  To this end there are large number of recommendations, the majority of which are based on expert consensus, as high quality evidence is not often available for this widely varied patient group.  In addition to recommendations there is practical advice and information regarding a number of other useful UK resources as well as recommendations for future research.

The full guideline is available to download from the BSDH website

Links

Clinical Guidelines and Integrated Care Pathways for the Oral Health Care of People with Learning Disabilities 2012

British Society for Disability and Oral Health

Faculty of Dental Surgery

 

 

 

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Derek Richards is a specialist in dental public health, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Dentistry and Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) Development Team. A former editor of the Evidence-Based Dentistry Journal and chief blogger for the Dental Elf website until December 2023. Derek has been involved with a wide range of evidence-based initiatives both nationally and internationally since 1994. Derek retired from the NHS in 2019 remaining as a part-time senior lecturer at Dundee Dental School until the end of 2023.

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