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People with intellectual disabilities 5 times more likely to lack dentures

Research from the School of Dental Science and the School of Nursing and Midwifery made headlines last week following the launch of IDS-TILDA's new report Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: Ageing with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland. You can see a fun infographic summarising the main oral health findings of this research so far by clicking on this link https://www.tcd.ie/tcaid/courses/infographics/oralhealth.pdf 

You can also see the headlines from RTE about this project last week here 
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/1204/924906-older-people-intellectual-disabilities-study/ 

Also see Medical Xpress
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/1204/924906-older-people-intellectual-disabilities-study/