Tongue-coating as risk indicator for aspiration pneumonia in edentate elderly

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-275

  Abe, Shu ^a   Ishihara, Kazuyuki ^a   Adachi, Mieko ^b   Okuda, Katsuji ^a  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edentate elderly; Oral bacteria; Oral care; Respiratory infection; Tongue coating

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH FLORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; ORAL HYGIENE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RISK; SALIVA; TONGUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 47549112846     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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