ISSN : 2663-2187

IMPROVING NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DENTURES: CIRCUMVENTING CHALLENGES

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Meenakshi S, Monisha Jeyasingh, Dishi Sangati, Sreeshyla H S, Raghunath N , Ramith Ramu
» doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.11.2024.721-728

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A healthy diet is essential to maintaining dental health. Improving the patients' nutritional health requires both dietary advice and replacement of lost teeth. Dietary advice cannot be provided due to time constraints or dentists' lack of nutritional counseling skills. Since primary care physicians see most older patients, it is wise for them to acknowledge the importance of oral health in the elderly and recommend that patients with dental issues see a dentist. Undergraduate clinical training should require nutritional assessments, dietary counseling, and follow-up, along with the creation of a uniform methodology for the same. To guarantee complete healthcare, dietetics, dentistry, medicine, and allied health professions must work together on research, teaching, and defining practice responsibilities for the benefit of geriatric denture wearers.

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