'We fought for years': Mother warns disability dental care in Ireland is worse than ever

The mother of an autistic man who spent 18 months trying to get dental care for him has warned that access to services is worse now than when her son was born.

It comes as a leading dentist working at Cork University Dental Hospital warned that the service offering dental care under general anaesthetic is “grotesquely under-resourced” around the country.

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