GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, ADA Foundation Announce Recipients of Grants for Improving Older Adult Access to Oral Care; Six Grant Winners to Receive Money From Fund Established by GSK Consumer Healthcare.

AScribe Health News Service, July, 2005

Byline: American Dental Association

PITTSBURGH, July 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) and the American Dental Association Foundation (ADAF) have announced the winners of $225,000 in grants to help improve older adults' access to oral health care.

According to the U.S. Surgeon General's report, Oral Health in America, "a silent epidemic" of oral diseases is afflicting the nation's elderly. About 30 percent of adults 65 years and older no longer have any natural teeth, and only about half of them visited a dentist in 2002.

Responding to the crisis, GSK Consumer Healthcare donated $250,000 late last year to the ADA's charitable arm to establish the Access to Oral Health Care for Older Adults Initiative. The...

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