Oral Medicine VI - Patel's Puzzle Flashcards
Chronological age is the number of years you have lived and the Functional Age is the age you are _______ to function at
perceived
Geriatric patients have ______ symptoms
More _____ responses on health questionnaires
Atypical
positive
With age, there are changes in both pharmokinetics and pharmodynamics
True
Drug related complications in Geriatric pts are separated into types by ________ list
Beer’s
Drug related complications can occur via what 5 mechanisms in geriatric pts?
DDI’s
Adverse drug rxn
Under medication
Polypharmacy
non-adherence
Criteria for potentially inappropriate meds in older adults
Beers
Types of chronic conditions in geriatric pts:
leading causes of death over 65
Heart disease
Cancer
Resp disease
Stroke
Alzheimers
Diabetes
Influenza
Pneumonia
3 Changes to CV system in elderly:
Stiffened aorta
Reduction max cardiac output
Coronary artery disease
Cellular and molecular alterations affecting both innate/adaptive immunity due to aging
Immunosenescence
Salivary gland hypofunction is a common age-related oral change
True
3 age-related Oral changes:
salivary hypofunction
mucosal fragility
impaired healing/immunity
Pulpal sensitivity _____ with increasing age
Increased prevalence of _______ disorders
decreases
neuropathic
TMJ affects what % of general population?
12%
Geriatric oral mucosa disorders (6):
Traumatic ulcers
Vesiculobullous disease
lichen planus
malignancy
candidiasis
denture stomatitis
Xerostomia vs. Salivary gland hypofunction
Subjective vs Objective
Whole stimulated flow rate, unstimulated flow rate =
Sialometry
Sialometry Hypofunction Unstimulated:
Stimulated:
less than 0.1 ml/min
less than 0.7 ml/min
Sore swollen tongue, cavities, metallic taste, bad breath, spicy/acidic food intolerance
Xerostomia/hypofunction
4 questions for dry mouth questionaire:
saliva seem too little?
difficulty swallowing?
when eating meal feel dry?
sip liquids to aid in swallowing?
Chronic GVHD and Sjogrens
Autoimmune
*salivary gland disorders
Salivary gland aplasia can happen _______
developmentally
4 infections that can affect the salivary glands:
CMV
HIV
HepC
TB
Non-neoplastic condition causing salivary gland disorder
Sialolithiasis
4 Iatrogenic means of causing salivary gland disorder:
External beam radiation
Internal beam radiation
Post-surgical
Botox