Arnold Franks obituary
<strong>Other lives:</strong> Quietly revolutionary dental surgeon who pioneered research into services for disabled people and the elderly
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<strong>Other lives:</strong> Quietly revolutionary dental surgeon who pioneered research into services for disabled people and the elderly
Fail to regularly brush your teeth and use dental floss? You won't suffer only holes in your teeth but, possibly, holes in your head.
While we often associate brain health with various factors, not many of use will consider the impact of dental care on our cognitive well-being.
Jeffrey B. Dalin, D.D.S., of St Louis, Mo., is the recipient of the 2022 American Dental Association (ADA) Humanitarian Award.
Update and review of the gerodontology prospective for 2020’s: Linking the interactions of oral (hypo)-functions to health vs. systemic diseases. Apr 19, 2021 New lines of evidence suggest that the oral-systemic medical links and oral hypo-function are progressively transcending beyond the traditional clinical signs and symptoms of oral diseases. Research into the dysbiotic microbiome, host immune/inflammatory regulations and patho-physiologic changes and subsequent adaptations through the oral-systemic measures under ageism points to pathways leading to mastication deficiency, dysphagia, s...