[Indicators of the oral health quality of life in geriatrics]

The literature review is submitted according to dental health in patients of different age groups in foreign countries and in the Russian Federation. The positive and negative aspects of available criteria of its assessment including a sociological component are analysed. Further researches, their prospects are defined by the need of development of new integrated indicators, in a complex and comprehensively characterizing the stomatologic status especially in patients of advanced and senile age in interrelation with the general level of health and the social status.