This issue of Dental Clinics focuses on Geriatric Dental Medicine and is edited by Drs. Joseph M. Calabrese and Michelle Henshaw. Articles will include: Demographics and Oral Health Care Utilization for Older Adults; Oral Health Disparities in Older Adults; Systemic Diseases, HIV and the Impact on Geriatric Oral Health; Consideration in Planning Dental Treatment for Older Adults; Oral Implications of Polypharmacy in Older Adults; Poor Oral Health in the Etiology and Prevention of Aspiration Pneumonia; Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults and Oral Health Considerations: Treatment and Management; Interdisciplinary Education and Healthcare in Geriatric Dental Medicine; Innovations in Geriatric Oral Health Care; The Physiology of Aging of Older Adults: Systemic and Oral Health Considerations; and more!
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Edited by Joseph M. Calabrese, DMD, Associate Dean of Students, Director of Geriatric , Dental Medicine, Clinical Professor, Department of General Dentistry, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Attending Dentist, Department of Medicine, Hebrew SeniorLife, Attending Dentist, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts and Michelle M. Henshaw, DDS, MPH, Associate Dean, Global and Population Health, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Health , Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts