The New Elderly Patient: A Necessary Upgrade

The elderly individual is becoming the most common patient in clinical practice due to increasing average life span, especially developed countries. current patients are different from those of some decades ago. They usually have an active social life, want be informed, and actively involved society with consequent high expectations for medical dental treatment. However, not all like this. Some them show limited financial resources, reduced mental manual skills, poor motivation. purpose this communication make a brief characterization new population view prosthetic management.