Periodontal health status and treatment needs among the elderly

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 98-103

  Ajwani, Shilpi ^a,b   Tervonen, Tellervo ^c   Närhi, Timo O ^d   Ainamo, Anja ^a,b  

^a Institute of Dentistry   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

CPITN; Elderly; Periodontal health status; Periodontal treatment needs

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENTAL SURGERY; EDENTULOUSNESS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTICS; PERIODONTITIS; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TOOTH CALCULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DENTAL CALCULUS; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTAL SCALING; FEMALE; FINLAND; GINGIVAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PERIODONTAL POCKET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; ROOT PLANING; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035351363     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2001.tb00234.x     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Douglass CW, Jette AM, Fox CH, et al. Oral health status of the elderly in New England. J Gerodontol 48:M39-M46, 1993.
2. Ainamo A, Österberg T. Changing demographic and oral disease patterns and treatment needs in the Scandinavian populations of old people. Int Dent J 42:311-22, 1992.