Atraumatic dental treatment among Finnish elderly persons.

摘要: There is an increase in elderly dentate adults who will retain more of their natural teeth, and thus the demand for restorative dental services among them be high. In Finland, systematic care old people has not been organized. Health centres have mainly targeted development children, adolescents young adults. With this background, atraumatic treatment (ART) was seen as a complementary procedure oral health elderly. It tested 1997–1999 Helsinki 119 (mean age 72·5 years) living homes receiving community-based support services. Patients were satisfied with having examination education at home. The ART fillings (n=33) provided 21 persons depuration 56. After 1 year, 25 (58%) could evaluated: 68% assessed being good, 11% slight marginal detect 16% unacceptable defect, one filling totally lost. conclusion, appropriate approach However, testing should completed to find out how screening organized make home visits cost-effective less time consuming.