"<Essay>The Emergence of ""Oral Health Care for the Disabled"""

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"This article aims to introduce a specialty field in dentistry existing now, which deals with dental and oral health problems among the disabled and also to those in the co-medical and social welfare field, but with no relation to dentistry. Particular focus in this article is given to persons who have acted as pioneers during the period from the late 1940's to the beginning of the 1960's in the United States of America, the U.K., Scandinavia and Holland. In the case of the USA, the name of Dr. Manuel M. Album is important. He has been called the ""father of the field"", and Dr. S.N. Rosenstein is also cited. In Europe, the focus was given to Drs. Peter Westphal, E. Kisling, J.N. Swallow and Ab Heybour. This specialty of dentistry first started as a way to deal with children and those with developmental disabilities. The subjects, however, to be dealt with by this field have changed over time as ideas in social thought have changed to feature what is important today, and it is still going to be changed in the future. This papar will be the prologue for this historical review with an intention to continue in the forthcoming series of review works."