“…The dual purposes of this project were: (1) to discern the current expert medical opinion and practices in 2014 regarding the provision of oral health services available to the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) patients, during their stay in PM&R units of hospitals, and as well as after their discharge; and, (2) to compare these current findings with the findings from a survey conducted 40 years prior in 1974 using the same survey questionnaire. While there is an identifiable literature on the oral health status of handicapped and/or disabled adults living either in institutions or at‐large in the community in the United States, all articles report that the oral health status for these adults ranges from bad to horrid, with a notable lack of access to dental care. As based upon a current full‐literature search by a university‐based biomedical librarian, only a single published article exists on the specific topic of oral health services in PM&R programs and that was the article that presented the findings from our group's 1974 survey .…”