title: Children with mental retardation grow older.
abstract: In an effort to encourage dental practitioners to provide needed services for children with mental retardation as they grow older, a review is provided of the ongoing difficulties faced by families and their children--including attitudes, residence, sibling and older parent dilemmas, cost of care and the realities of sexuality.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Dentistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794-8706, USA.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Waldman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Swerdloff
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Perlman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D003730:Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male