Oral health status and treatment needs of psychiatric inpatients in Ranchi, India

• Main Authors: Bhuvan Jyoti (Author), Parvathi Devi Muneeshwar (Author), Rahul Srivastava (Author), Amool Ranjan Singh (Author), Manisha Kiran (Author), Jayati Simlai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Oral health has an impact on general health, self-esteem and quality of life, but it often has a low priority in the context of mental health and in some phases of illness, the priority may be nonexistent Patients with psychiatric illness have poor oral hygiene than general population. V...