The most vulnerable people in Ireland have the worst access to dental care, a leading dentist has said.
Blánaid Daly, of Dublin Dental University Hospital and School of Dental Science at Trinity College Dublin, said that marginalised children and adults and people with disabilities have the most difficulty accessing a dentist.
She said: “While there have been substantial improvements in the population’s oral health across Ireland, vulnerable groups, such as the very young, people with disabilities, frail older people and marginalised groups, continue to experience poor oral health and large gaps in their access to routine dental care.”
Professor Daly has co-written a major study, published last night in The Lancet, into the global health crisis in oral diseases. It found that treating oral