CHANGES IN PERIODONTAL PATHOLOGY AT ELDERLY PEOPLE
Abstract:
More and more specialty studies have prooved that the number of the elderly population worldwide
is constanty growing. In Romania, as in most of the countries with medium economical development, the aging
process of the population has not been accompanied by the sustainment of the oral health. This has led to
deeper consequences of the decay and peiodontal diseases spread and thus a loss of the teeth with subsequent
edentations and an increase in the number of those who wear partial or complete dentures.
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