In today’s times, elderly individuals are keeping their natural teeth for longer owing to the rising popularity of fixed dental restorations and implants. It is seen that access oral health care reduces demands rise as people get older more dependent on medical attention. For a high quality life in terms health, it critical have functional dentition. A skilled provider required geriatric popula...

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the Turkish version of Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI-TR) and Impact Profile for Edentulous (OHIP-EDENT-TR) in edentulous geriatric patients using a total prosthesis. Material Methods: Twelve items GOHAI 19 OHIP-EDENT were translated into back-translation technique. A 32 complete participants answered GOHAI-TR OHIP-EDENT-TR indexes twice at two d...

BACKGROUND National oral health policy was conscripted by the Indian Dental Association (IDA) in 1986 and was accepted as an integral part of National Health Policy (NHP) by the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare in one of its conferences in the year 1995. Objectives of this paper were to find out the efforts made or going on towards its execution, its current status and recent oral h...

This article reviews access to and financing of dental care for aging populations in selected nations in Europe. Old age per se does not seem to be a major factor in determining the use of dental services. Dentition status, on the other hand, is a major determinant of dental attendance. In addition to perceived need, a variety of social and behavioral factors as well as general health factors h...

BACKGROUND Pain is a common problem in people with dementia, however the exact prevalence of pain in dementia subtypes, e.g. Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Vascular Dementia (VaD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), is unknown, as is the relation between pain and the different subtypes of dementia. In this study, the prevalence of pain in people with dementia will be ...

BACKGROUND The manifestations of oral changes and disorders affecting the geriatric population are different from the rest of the population. Inaccessibility to dental care is a compelling impediment to avail oral health services. OBJECTIVE The aims were to assess the dental and oral problems and to find out the determinants of oral health seeking behaviour among elderly population of Al-Jouf...

This article presents a brief introduction to the medical aspects of ageing and age-related diseases, and to some geriatric syndromes, followed by a discussion on their impact on general and oral healthcare provision to community-dwelling older people. Recent investigations suggest that inflammation constitutes a biological foundation of ageing and the onset of age-related diseases. Multimorbid...

The aging of the population combined with increased retention of natural teeth into old age means that clinicians now face a new caries challenge in older dentate patients. An increase in the onset of dental caries is evident among patients who may not have had high levels of caries in the past and who may have undergone extensive restorative procedures during their lifetimes. Minimal intervent...