In the three years since Joanne Shimakawa last had a dental checkup, her multiple sclerosis had progressed to the point where she’d become increasingly prone to falling and no longer felt safe transferring to a dentist’s chair.
So she recently began searching for someone in her Toronto neighbourhood who could treat her in her wheelchair.
“I basically took every dentist in the west end and called them one after another,” Shimakawa told CBC News. “I couldn’t find anybody.”
In the end, there was just one dentist whose office didn’t have stairs or other obstacles and who said treatment in the wheelchair wouldn’t be
