title: India's baby boomers: In driving need for dental care.
abstract: The present paper aims to review the literature on increasing health care challenges and needs of a growing Indian geriatric population. It also focuses on the need to overcome the shortfalls in its current oral health status in elderly. This review is based on a PubMed database search engine published in the period from 1990 to 2010 in various dental journals. Different strategies are designed to provide better facilities and easy access of these facilities not only to elderly living in the city but to the one's in rural areas. It is emphasized that geriatric dentistry should be included in the educational systems to help resolve problems of oral health care for the elderly in India.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Savita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dandakeri
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Shilpa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dandekeri
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Surgery, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: B Gunachandra
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.affiliation: Department of Conservative and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Nitin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suvarna
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Mallikarjuna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ragher
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Medicine, Yenepoya Dental College, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Rachana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prabhu
keywords: Baby boomers; geriatrics; greying; multifarious encounter