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Dental Care of AD Patients

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Neurology ((CCNEU))

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To provide optimal care to patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), health care providers must understand the disease, its treatment, and the effects that both the disease and/or its treatment may have on the patient’s quality of life. Physicians who treat patients with AD must better understand the role of adequate dental health care in improving the quality of life and not forget to initiate timely referral to oral health care providers. Oral health care providers, in turn, must develop preventive and therapeutic strategies compatible with the patient’s physical and cognitive ability to undergo and respond to dental care. Adequate dental care is a vital aspect of a patient’s well-being.

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  1. The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, USA

    Ralph W. Richter MD, FACP (Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Director) (Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Director)

  2. Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit, St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, OK, USA

    Ralph W. Richter MD, FACP (Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Director) (Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Director)

  3. Tulsa, OK, USA

    Brigitte Zoeller Richter DiplPharm (Pharmacist, Publicist) (Pharmacist, Publicist)

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Gitto, C.A., Moroni, M.J., Terezhalmy, G.T., Sandu, S.K. (2004). Dental Care of AD Patients. In: Richter, R.W., Richter, B.Z. (eds) Alzheimer’s Disease. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-661-4_48

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