{"title":"[Geriatric dentistry introduction].","authors":"P Dimitriou","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing number of old people in today's society is a reality. They are a group, whose special needs and medical problems are dealt in Geriatrics. Geriatric dentistry is the branch of Dentistry concerned with their dentical problems. In this article we discuss some of these special problems as an attempt to make this subject more comprehensible to the general practionner.</p>","PeriodicalId":75901,"journal":{"name":"Hellenika stomatologika chronika. Hellenic stomatological annals","volume":"33 4","pages":"211-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hellenika stomatologika chronika. Hellenic stomatological annals","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The increasing number of old people in today's society is a reality. They are a group, whose special needs and medical problems are dealt in Geriatrics. Geriatric dentistry is the branch of Dentistry concerned with their dentical problems. In this article we discuss some of these special problems as an attempt to make this subject more comprehensible to the general practionner.