title: [Dental treatment strategies for elderly patients].
abstract: The elderly are influenced from a various and complex combination of factors, such us individual genetic predispositions, lifestyle, society and environment, the sum of all the individual life experiences concerning the dental care, the caries, the periodontal and iatrogenic diseases.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This paper evaluates the dental treatment in the elderly.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was performed on 112 patients, aged over 65, at the Clinical Department of Dental Semiology und Geriatric Dentistry, Iaşi, Romania.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The treatment interventions were dental hygiene procedures (in 97 patients), restaurations (in 29 patients), removable partial and total denture preocedures (in 50 patients), fixed prosthetic procedures (in 18 patients), rebasing of dentures (in 25 patients) and teeth extractions (in 26 patients). There were 36 endodontic emergencies and 15 periodontal emergencies and 8 emergencies that resulted from other causes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The periodical dental examinations and the proper daily oral hygiene routine are still important in the old age and they should not be neglected, because the prosthetical components request also treatment interventions.
authors: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie "Gr.T.Popa" Iaşi, Facultatea de Medicină Dentară, Disciplina Diagnostic oro-dentar şi Gerontostomatologie.
authors: Mihaela Monica
authors: MM
authors: Scutariu
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Frăţilă
authors: Isabella Cristina
authors: IC
authors: Brujbu
authors: Constanţa
authors: C
authors: Mocanu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016321:Dental Care for Aged / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D003779:Denture Design; D003780:Denture Repair / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003830:Denture, Partial, Fixed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003832:Denture, Partial, Removable / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009909:Oral Health; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D010512:Periodontal Index; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology