Journal article
Medications with dental significance: usage in a nursing home population
Special care in dentistry, Vol.11(1), pp.19-25
01/1991
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1991.tb00807.x
PMID: 1948556
Abstract
The institutionalized elderly use more drugs per capita than do other segments of the population and are more likely than other population groups to have adverse drug reactions. Many of these drugs could affect oral health or dental treatment. This paper provides data on the frequency with which a population of nursing home residents took medications with possible oral effects. Information regarding prescription and nonprescription drug use was obtained from nursing home records of 481 subjects. Nine medication effect categories of possible significance in dentistry were established. Dentists treating institutionalized patients must be knowledgeable about patient drug use because 94% of this institutionalized population were taking medications that could alter oral health or dental treatment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Medications with dental significance: usage in a nursing home population
- Creators
- K A Baker - Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242S M LevyE A Chrischilles
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Special care in dentistry, Vol.11(1), pp.19-25
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1991.tb00807.x
- PMID
- 1948556
- ISSN
- 0275-1879
- eISSN
- 1754-4505
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/1991
- Academic Unit
- Preventive and Community Dentistry; Pharmacy; Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine; Epidemiology; Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983917690202771
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