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Study Finds Severely Sub-Standard Dental Care for Residents of MRFacilities

March 6, 2000 Study Finds Severely Sub-Standard Dental Care for Residents of MR Facilities A study, conducted by the Hazlewood Center, a Louisville, Kentucky-based intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR), has found that in several crucial areas, 75% of the 16,678 institutionalized individuals with profound mental retardation studied were receiving sub-standard dental care. The study also documented that 75% of institutional dentists in the southern United States were not taking baseline x-rays of their patients with severe mental retardation as part as their diagnostic check-up. Furthermore, 81% of the participating dentists . . .

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