title: Dental health problems of the geriatric population.
abstract: A topic seldom considered and even more rarely discussed among the dental components of the health professions is presented. The dentist's preoccupation with hosts of dental treatment problems has left little time for considering the perplexities of aging, critical illness, or dying or dead patient's relatives. Community dentistry has now forced upon our consciousness the fact that perhaps the subject is one which must not be avoided, if we are to fulfill completely our professional obligations to the public.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003149:Community Dentistry; D005850:Geriatric Dentistry; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States