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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
[Diagnostics of the changes arising in an oral cavity at oncological sick senior age groups (review)]
N A Koren1, T B Tkachenko1, G A Ryzhak2
1I. P. Pavlov State Medical University in Saint Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg, 197022, Russian Federation; Ona.dent@rambler.ru.
Abstract:
Article is devoted to the changes happening in an oral cavity and in oral liquid under the influence of preparations of the oncological diseases used for treatment. Considering that research of oral liquid belongs to one of noninvasive methods of diagnostics and can be used with success for definition and correction of conditions of the mucous membrane of an oral cavity at the patients of advanced and senile age passing polychemotherapeutic treatment, this type of research is the extremely perspective for a gerontostomatology.
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