[Dental treatment strategies for elderly patients].
REVISTA MEDICO-CHIRURGICALA A SOCIETATII DE MEDICI SI NATURALISTI DIN IASI 2011;
115:938-943. [PMID:
22046812]
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Abstract
UNLABELLED
The elderly are influenced from a various and complex combination of factors, such us individual genetic predispositions, lifestyle, society and environment, the sum of all the individual life experiences concerning the dental care, the caries, the periodontal and iatrogenic diseases.
AIM
This paper evaluates the dental treatment in the elderly.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The study was performed on 112 patients, aged over 65, at the Clinical Department of Dental Semiology und Geriatric Dentistry, Iaşi, Romania.
RESULTS
The treatment interventions were dental hygiene procedures (in 97 patients), restaurations (in 29 patients), removable partial and total denture preocedures (in 50 patients), fixed prosthetic procedures (in 18 patients), rebasing of dentures (in 25 patients) and teeth extractions (in 26 patients). There were 36 endodontic emergencies and 15 periodontal emergencies and 8 emergencies that resulted from other causes.
CONCLUSIONS
The periodical dental examinations and the proper daily oral hygiene routine are still important in the old age and they should not be neglected, because the prosthetical components request also treatment interventions.
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