Improvement of taste sensitivity of the nursed elderly by oral care

Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-107

  Ohno, Tomohisa ^a,b   Uematsu, Hiroshi ^a   Nozaki, Shuichi ^a   Sugimoto, Kumiko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Oral care; Taste threshold; Tongue brushing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NURSING HOME; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASTE; TONGUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; ORAL HYGIENE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASTE; TONGUE;

EID: 0038548553     PISSN: 13428810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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