Oral diseases can have a direct and devastating impact on the general health and quality of life. Individuals with certain systemic health problems or conditions such as compromised immunity (e.g., malignancies, human immunodeficiency virus, history of organ transplantation) or cardiac conditions at a high risk for infective endocarditis may be especially vulnerable to the effects of oral diseases. Patients with cognitive, developmental or physical disabilities that impact their ability to understand, assume responsibility for, or co-operate with preventive oral health practices are susceptible as well. Oral health is an inseparable part of general health and well-being. Therefore, all these patients are treated in special health care clinics which came into existence in the department of Public Health Dentistry in 2019.
The procedures undertaken in this clinic are:
