Oral implants in dependent elderly persons: Blessing or burden?

Gerodontology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-80

  Visser, Anita ^a   De Baat, Cees ^b   Hoeksema, Arie R ^c   Vissink, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Practice for Oral Health Care ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aftercare; care; dental implants; dependent; gerodontology; nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COOPERATION; DEMENTIA; DENTAL CARE; DENTURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH HYGIENE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DENTAL CARE FOR DISABLED; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS, IMPLANT-SUPPORTED; DENTURE RETENTION; DENTURE, COMPLETE, LOWER; DENTURE, OVERLAY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISABLED PERSONS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL HYGIENE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 79951761432     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2009.00314.x     Document Type: Article

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