Oral frailty indicators to target major adverse health-related outcomes in older age: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: A well-preserved oral function is key to accomplishing essential daily tasks. However, in geriatric medicine and gerodontology, as age-related physiological decline disrupts several biological systems pathways, achieving this objective may pose a challenge. We aimed to make a systematic review of the existing literature on the relationships between poor oral health indicators contributing to the oral frailty phenotype, defined as an age-related gradual loss of oral function together with a decline in cognitive and physical functions, and a cluster of major adverse health-related outcomes in older age, including mortality, physical frailty, functional disability, quality of life, hospitalization, and falls. Six different electronic databases were consulted by two independent researchers, wh

SUBMITTER: Dibello V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9886742 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature