Moving toward a competency-based curriculum: Analyzing patients' information and students' evaluation in geriatric dentistry.

Information analysis of the patients and students' evaluation are essential to move a knowledge-based curriculum for geriatric and special patient care dentistry toward a competency-based curriculum that is appropriate for patients' condition and serves students' requirements. Oral health care in elderly and special care patients requires a multidisciplinary approach, and should encompass oral disease problems, behavior, and social context.