FROM GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY TO GERIATRIC DENTISTRY

摘要

At this moment, geriatric dentistry represents a very well-defined discipline, which dealswith the dental treatments in the elderly patients, more precisely the patients over 60 years old.Unfortunately, in Romania, geriatric dentistry is currently very superficiality treated, this being ratheran optional study discipline in the curricula of Dental Medicine Faculties. Therefore, in this materialwe have tried to explain through solid arguments the importance of geriatric dentistry in the basictraining of dentists, dental and dental prophylaxis nurses, as well as dental technicians.