Global health challenges in treating an elderly institutionalised patient: an oral medicine perspective.
Dalal AlhajjiRui Amaral MendesPublished in: BMJ case reports (2017)
A 64-year-old institutionalised woman presented to our clinic for the management of black hairy tongue. Despite the predictable outcome in treating this disease, this case presents multiple challenges such as the patients' cognitive impairment, her family dynamics, social factors and the health system as a whole, that makes it difficult to treat.