%0 Journal Article
%T Dental Status of Elderly in Maraveh-Tapeh City, Golestan
%A Hashem Heshmati
%A Zahra Asadi
%A Anita Dehnadi
%J Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
%D 2013
%I Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
%X One of the main problems of the old people is losing the natural teeth which can be considered as a very important event in their life because as a result the aged will be afflicted with a kind of functional disability which affects daily activities such as food choice, eating and speaking; it even creates many psychosocial problems for the old person [1]. Studies also indicated that the old people who have lost their teeth have a more unfavorable quality of life [2]. The importance of Oral Health is so that one of the elements of Primary Health Care (PHC) is devoted to Oral Health [3].
%K Dental
%K Status
%K Elderly
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