Elderly do not know of home dental care scheme

Home dental care is offered to the elderly and severely disabled, who find it difficult even to report a dental visit. But several hundred elderly people in Aalborg Municipality miss the offer dental care at home because they do not know about the scheme, writes TV2/Nord.

Equipped with a small suitcase dentists dentist can solve most tasks at home, which protects the elderly and severely disabled patients to a troublesome trip out of the home. But according to Aalborg Municipality dentistry is a paucity of making use of the opportunity to get the dentist to give the teeth a check in their own homes.

"We suspect that we could have almost twice as many users in the system, if everyone who is eligible, took the offer," says dentist Birgit Krabsen from dentistry in Aalborg Municipality.

Care Centers can also avail of the scheme so that staff in care centers can concentrate on providing care, rather than having to devote time to accompany the residents individually to the dentist.