Geriatric Psychology in Prosthodontics

The psychological aspect in geriatric patients is often neglected by the clinicians. Most of the dentists fail to realize that the treatment's success in geriatric patients begins with their care before their dental treatment. This book gives an insight on different perspectives of geriatric individuals towards different treatment modalities and role of the dentist in successfully delivering the best treatment. We come across many cases where the patient does not tend to be happy with the treatment even when it is done at the best possible way. The clinician's focus remains on finding out problems associated with the prosthesis while the real problem would have been the patient's psychological or mental attitude towards the treatment. If this remains unresolved, it is impossible to deliver a perfect prosthesis to the patient. This book helps in understanding both the patient's and dentist's approach towards various kinds of treatment and measures to be taken before starting the procedure requiring various kinds of prosthetic rehabilitations.