A recent review article in the British Journal of Psychiatry confirmed something many of us in the mental health community have known or suspected for some time; “People with severe mental illness had 3.4 times the odds of having lost all their teeth than the general community...They also had significantly higher scores for decayed, missing and filled teeth....” This special edition of WOW focuses on dental hygeine and wellness, and discusses resources and personal experience with the role of dental hygeine in overall wellness.
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