Geriatric Dentistry and the Alzheimer Disease

• Main Authors: Marcelo Coelho GOIATO (Author), Daniela Micheline dos SANTOS (Author), Valentim Adelino Ricardo BARÃO (Author), Aldiéris Alves PESQUEIRA (Author), Humberto GENNARI FILHO (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Association of Support to Oral Health Research (APESB), 2006-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Introduction: The world population is getting old, mainly in countries in development like Brazil. So, the number of pathologies, which appears in the elderly, will happen in a higher frequency. Among these diseases, we can point Alzheimer, an irreversible dementia, that has been related to age, cer...