Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion
9:30 am
Dr. Catherine Gallagher:
I will add that the evidence coming from the UK looking at the presentation of oral cancer in the post-pandemic time, we see patients presented later with more severe disease because they did not have access to general dental care. The screening programme is well-trained general dental practitioners seeing patients and if that does not happen, there will be later presentations and poorer outcomes.
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