GERODONTOLOGY
Anastassios Retsas
DDS
General Dental Practitioner, Athens, Greece
CV
Anastassios Retsas was born in 1989 is Athens, Greece. He enrolled
as a student of the Dental School of the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens in 2007 and graduated in 2012. Thereafter he
served as a dentist at the Hellenic Air Force for one year. He has also
served as a volunteer dentist in many dental programs in Athens
and has worked in dental offices specialised in Endodontics. He
has always been interested in the field of Endodontics, attending
conferences and presenting papers on this topic area. He is
currently working as a private dental practitioner in Athens and will
soon start his postgraduate studies in Endodontics in ACTA.
Questions
The older dental patients can be generally divided into the following groups:
q a. Independent and frail older people.
q b. Fully dependent and frail older people.
q c. Independent older, frail and fully dependent older people
q d. There are no specific patients’ categories. We treat every dental patient older than 65 years of
age according to similar principles.
Endodontic procedures in geriatric patients :
q a. Should be completed in a single appointment, in order not to burden the patient with multiple
visits.
q b. Should be distributed in multiple and shorter appointments, in order not to burden the patient
with long-duration procedures.
q c. Should only be scheduled in the morning.
q d. Should be adapted to each patient’s individual needs.
Separation prevalence of rotary NiTi instruments has shown to be :
q a.
q b.
q c.
q d.
Greater than that of hand instruments.
Less than that of hand instruments.
Almost the same with hand instruments.
No clinical instrument separation has been reported for rotary NiTi instruments.
Specify a common problem when performing endodontic treatment in older
patients’ teeth:
q a.
q b.
q c.
q d.
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Local anesthesia is very difficult to perform.
The teeth roots often present internal resorption.
Rubber dam isolation placement is very difficult.
Dentine deposition narrows the canal and makes access and patency very difficult.
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