Oral care of the handicapped patients

身心障礙者口腔醫療照護

蔡恒惠

Hung-Huey Tsai

College of Oral Medicine
Taipei Medical University

Course Structure: 4 Hours per week
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Course Description

Most, but not all people with disabilities develop normal teeth. They can get all of the same diseases as their nondisabled counterpoints, but they frequently suffer more dental disease. Some caregivers have the mistaken belief that the disabled person's teeth are not valuable to them and so care is neglected.On the part of the disabled person, there is sometimes an inability to understand the consequences of neglecting dental hygiene and care, or there is an inability to cooperate with dental treatment. Disabled people ordinarily need individualized, special types of help to achieve the same level of health as the nondisabled population.

身心障礙者大多數為弱勢族群，長期以來被人們忽視。多數之身障者，存在智力、認知、協調動作及特殊行為問題，不但無法照顧自己口腔衛生，也無法順利地接受口腔牙齒醫療診療，因此開設課程以利學生了解與學習身心障礙口腔醫療照護的重要性與技術。