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Mandating education of dental graduates to provide care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Waldman HB, Perlman SP

Department of General Dentistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8706, USA. hwaldman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

In 2004, The Commission on Dental Accreditation adopted new standards for dental and dental hygiene education programs to ensure the preparation of practitioners to provide oral health services for persons with special health care needs. The course of action leading to the adoption of the new standards, together with the continuing obstacles of limited government support for dental services and the availability of faculty members to provide the needed dental educational experiences is reviewed. Expanding Health Resources and Services Administration definition of medically underserved areas is presented as one approach to improving the delivery of dental services.

Published 8 May 2006 in Ment Retard, 44(3): 184-8.
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