Oral rehabilitation for a geriatric population
—A voluntary experience in Ukraine report

Alex Mersel, Yaroslav Zablotsky, Myron Uhryn

Department Community Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hadassah, Jerusalem.
Ukrainan Association of Private Practice Dentits, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ukrainian Dental Implantology Association, Kyiv, Ukraine.

DOI: 10.4236/ojst.2012.22017                

Abstract

Despite the outstanding progress in dentistry, there are still a great number of edentulous patients world-wide, what’s more, the dentists are not willing to inform the patients about their handicapped condition. Elderly people do not complain about this a lot, and also unfortunately the general public and government authorities do not concerne too much about gerodontic issues. The elderly people has suffered greatly from this. Dental implant is one way to figure this out. The Ukrainian Dental Implant Association has initiated a professional voluntary project entitled: “Quality of Life for our Parents”. This geriatric welfare program offers free implant and Prosthetic rehabilitation for the Elderly edentulous patients.

Keywords

Gerodontic; Edentulous; Implant Overdentures

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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