Prosthodontics & Orthodontics

Geriatric Dentistry

Geriodontics is the delivery of dental care to older adults involving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of problems associated with normal aging and age-related diseases as part of an interdisciplinary team with other health care professionals. The dental diseases that the elderly are particularly prone to are root caries, attrition, periodontal disease, missing teeth because of earlier neglect, edentulism, poor quality of alveolar ridges, ill-fitting dentures, mucosal lesions, oral ulceration, dry mouth (xerostomia), oral cancers, and rampant caries.

Relatedconference | Dentistry  Conferences | Dentistry  Events | Dentistry  Meetings | ConferenceSeries Ltd 19th American Dental Congress, December 08-10, 2016 Phoenix, USA, 18th International Conference on Oral Health and Maxillofacial Surgery December 5-6, 2016 Madrid, Spain. 18th Asia-Pacific Dental and Oral Care Congress, November 21-23, 2016 Melbourne, Australia, 17^th  World Congress on Oral Care and Dental Hygiene November 14-16, 2016 Orlando, USA, 15th Euro Congress on Dental & Oral Health October 24-26, 2016 Rome, Italy, Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA), American Dental Association, IADR GERIATRIC ORAL RESEARCH GROUP (GORG)