Preventive dentistry and community.
The course represents the last theoretical cycle for the acquisition of the basic protein notions of the dentist. The course aims to train the student on the prosthetic management of the fourth age patient. The epidemiological data of the elderly patient, the systemic pathologies that can be associated with age, and their management will be analysed. Furthermore, the various prosthetic treatment plan hypotheses will be discussed, in relation to the systemic and local health conditions of patients of the fourth age. In this context, all the prosthetic techniques analyzed during the previous years, and their management and maintenance in the elderly patient will be analysed.