Predoctoral dental students from University of the Pacific School of Dentistry provide initial and yearly dental evaluations for participants of On Lok Senior Health Services on site at On Lok centers. Student dentists also complete some dental procedures including denture fabrication, adjustments and repairs, hard and soft relines, scaling/root planing, polishing, and limited restorative treat...

Minimal intervention dentistry (MID), a modern, evidence-based approach to caries management in dentate patients, uses a medical model whereby disease is controlled by the "oral physician" and an affiliated dental team. Geriatric MID helps clinicians to address the ever-increasing restorative challenges presented by older patients, including erosion, abrasion, demineralization, rampant coronal ...

Ro le o f s t a t e coa l i t i on s The mission of the Coalition for Oral Health for the Aging (COHA; www.micoha.org) is to improve the oral health of older people through advocacy, professional education, public education, and research by focusing on prevention, health promotion, and evidence-based practices. This mission is achieved through COHA’s organizational goals: (1) to be a resource f...

This paper documents the experience of the University of British Columbia's Geriatric Dentistry Program (GDP) with emphasis on the dental treatment needs of patients during its first year of operation. The GDP provided access to dental care for residents of longterm care facilities, education for hospital staff concerning daily mouth care, education of dental students and an opportunity for res...

Department of Internal Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatric Medicine University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis,...

The development of measures for assessing oral health status is essential to the evolution and maturation of a scientific knowledge based in geriatric dentistry. Their development as branches of clinical care depends in part as ability to demonstrate an effective grasp of the problems of elderly and their solutions. Any strategy for altering the health status of elderly requires a technology fo...