title: Oral disease in the geriatric patient: the physician's role.
abstract: In the elderly, oral health has a profound impact on general well-being. The ability to quickly identify potentially harmful oral health problems is valuable to the physician, who generally will see an older patient more often than the dentist will.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pyle
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Terezhalmy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D010819:Physician's Role