Consistency of supplied food and dentition status of the elderly in residential care homes.

Yoshiaki NomuraAyako OkadaErika KakutaRyoko OtsukaKaoru SogabeKiyoshige YamaneTaku YamamotoYuko ShigetaShuji ShigemotoTakumi OgawaNobuhiro Hanada

Published in: BMC oral health (2019)

The number of tooth contact pairs, either natural or artificial, was one of the contributing factors for deciding supplied food consistency among elderly residents of care facilities. Elderly residents requiring less than care level 3 should have ordinary meals.

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