Association between oral health, cognitive impairment and oral health-related quality of life

Gerodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zuluaga, Dairo Javier Marín ^a   Montoya, José Antonio Gil ^b   Contreras, Clementina Infante ^a   Herrera, Ramona Rubio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

aged; cognition; oral health; quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PROCEDURE; EATING; EDENTULOUSNESS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MASTICATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH HYGIENE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPAIN; SPEECH; TOOTH BRUSHING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; EATING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASTICATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPAIN; SPEECH; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 84861607458     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2011.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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