Management Of Geriatric Patients In Prosthodontic - Leena Tomer - Bog

The major block in oral health care of elderly and the residents would be the underestimation of the oral health care need by them. The dental care of the residents is often limited to emergency care and is not aimed at retaining teeth. Conversely, with changing attitudes the oral health goal should include: Keeping their teeth, keeping their teeth healthy and keeping their teeth pretty. The best option to serve the residents would be ¿home dentistry or domiciliary dental care,¿ however it is yet an infrequent practice in India.In everyday experience, one frequently speaks of a person as seeming older or younger than his chronological age, or of a person as being old in years but young in spirit. These comments do not imply that a man of 20 years cannot be distinguished from one of 40, or the man of 40 from one of 60 years. The findings indicate that aging is, to a great extent, an individual matter and that there are many facets to the aging process. The process of aging follows no clearly defined course of events by which it is possible to determine accurately the "age" of any individual.