Due to
the demographic change even the patiens in the medical and dental practices
become always elder. The elderly patients often are characterized by
invalidity, multimorbidity and polymedication. Successful diagnosis and
treatment of these patients is characterized by interdisciplinary. In order to
develop a treatment without complication from the view of the dentists, next to
a good knowledge of the organic correlations an interdisciplinary co-operation
is needed. With age frequent symptoms like Halitosis, cerebrovascular diseases,
dementia, endocarditis, diabetes mellitus and gastritis often are directly
connected with dental problems and multimorbidity and polymedications. Patient
discussions regarding possible connections as well as the integration in the
multiprofessional geriatric team should characterize the dental daily practice
with geriatic patients.
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