Brown J P, Schodel D R
ASDC J Dent Child. 1976 Sep-Oct;43(5):313-20.
The need is demonstrated for large scale, definitive, standardized epidemiologic investigations of dental disease in those handicapped groups for whom this information is unavailable. Treatment needs of all groups should also be assessed, because this is not readily deduced from the indices of dental disease reviewed in this article. While a preventive orientation in dental care for the handicapped is most desirable, it must be emphasized that priorities in prevention and treatment should focus as much on periodontal disease as on caries, and due consideration must also be given to malocclusion. Current methods of preventing periodontal disease in the handicapped are quite inadequate.
对于那些尚无此类信息的残疾人群体，开展大规模、权威性、标准化的牙科疾病流行病学调查的必要性已得到证实。所有群体的治疗需求也应得到评估，因为这无法从本文所回顾的牙科疾病指数中轻易推断出来。虽然对残疾人的牙科护理采取预防为主的方针最为可取，但必须强调的是，预防和治疗的重点应同样放在牙周疾病和龋齿上，同时也必须充分考虑错颌畸形。目前预防残疾人群体牙周疾病的方法相当不足。
