Aging is a natural part of becoming older. The need for dental care does not usually increase with age. In addition to working extend people's lives, healthcare workers should focus on improving the quality life in their golden years. loss tooth may have devastating effect your ability chew, as well self-esteem and oral health. Age, illness, trauma, metabolic problems, dietary inadequacies are ...

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...

objectives: according to growing of aged population in iran and also high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in this group, assessment of demographical and epidemiological studies of psychiatric disorders in subjects 59 years or older in ekbatan district of tehran was the aim ofthis study. methods & materials: the subjects were chosen randomly from 1422 subjects 59 years or older, who were liv...

results from a total of 319 patients, 78% (n = 249) were female and 22% (n = 70) were male, with the mean age of 83.6 years. seventeen percent of the patients suffered from heart failure, 23% from diabetes, and 19% from renal insufficiency. time to surgery averaged one day postinjury. average operative time skin-to-skin was 50 minutes. seventy-three percent of the patients could mobilize indepe...

objectives: the aim of the current study was to determine the depression status of the elderly and it's related factors. methods & materials: this was a cross sectional study. sample unit was based on the elderly of isfahan city in 2007. 248 elderly aged 60 and older (125 men and 123 women) were selected randomly according to clusters related to the families that are under coverage of isfa...

objectives: the object of this research was to investigate the «quality of life» and relation to demographic characteristics in elderly peopel of tehran. methods & materials: the method of this research was a descriptive-correlation. in this research 243 of elder were selected with accessible sampling from people who referred to elder centers, cultural centers, and public parks in deferent dist...

AIMS To determine the self-assessed continuing professional development (CPD) needs of dental practitioners and identify how each discipline can best be served by a dental CPD programme. To set findings in the context of the available literature and contribute to the development of CPD programmes. METHOD Topics were arranged into eight disciplines: practice management; paediatric dentistry; p...

Abstract Background Complete tooth losses are still being major problems which resulted in lesser quality of life especially for elderly patients. However, there lack questionnaire to evaluate the treatment outcome from patient’s aspect. The objective this study is reliability and validity Patient’s Denture Assessment-Thai version (PDA-T), then use assess patient satisfaction with complete dent...