Hospital dentistry and the occurrence of pneumonia

Objective: To determine the oral health conditions of the elderly patients hospitalized and restricted to the bed and to correlate with the development of infections at a distance, especially pneumonia. To verify if the daily follow-up of the dental surgeon improves oral health and reduces the occur...

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Main Authors: Rita Fabiane Teixeira GOMES, Edilson Fernando CASTELO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic 2019-05-01
Series:RGO: Revista Gaúcha de Odontologia
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Online Access:https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-86372019000100805&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en