[Medical and psycho-social screening of ageing patients in dental office]

The demographic changes cause an increasing number of ageing persons laying claim to medical and dental care. They are trying to maintain their habit of regular dental controls. Therefore, the dental care team should be able to recognize early medical and psycho-social deficiencies relevant for oral health. In this way, health status and ressources of elderly persons could be estimated better and failures in oral diagnosis as well as in treatment due to monodisciplinary case analysis could be avoided. This paper presents a systematic medical and psychosocial screening concept for oral care of elderly patients.