| pubmed-article:2635275 | pubmed:abstractText | Expectations concerning the future of the oral health of the Dutch elderly and the quantitative results of a computer simulation model are put together. On an individual level no major changes in the oral health of the elderly dentates are to be expected. The ageing of the population and the decrease of the percentage of edentulous patients will result in a strong increase of the number of elderly people who need regular dental care. Due to the increasing age at which people become edentulous, no increase of treatment related to atrophic edentulous jaws is to be expected. On the other hand the introduction of new treatments, like the use of oral implants, might result in an increase of treatments of this kind. | lld:pubmed |
