What do we learn from the clinical and biological evaluation of the oral cavity in centenarians?

The increase of life expectancy, due to the progress in public health, medicine, economic and social development, leads to an increase in the world ’s population aging and, at the same time, in age-related disorders [1,2,3]. Dementia is the main cause of disability in elderly people and its prevalence increases with age with enormous economic costs of social and health spending [4]. Etiopathogenetic complexity of dementia, due to both environ mental and genetic mechanisms and the lack of availability of effective therapies, encourages to shed light on how to prevent cognitive pathologies in elderly.

Source: Maturitas - December 22, 2020 Category: Primary Care Authors: Katia Rupel, Mauro Tettamanti, Filomena Vella, Giulia Fontanel, Roberto Di Lenarda, Matteo Biasotto, Gabriella Marcon Source Type: research