Providing dental services for people with disabilities: Why is it so difficult?

Mental Retardation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 330-333

  Waldman, H Barry ^a   Perlman, Steven P ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DENTAL ANXIETY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENTAL ANXIETY; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION;

EID: 0036673037     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2002)040<0330:PDSFPW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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