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Oral hygiene in elderly people in hospitals and nursing homes
Evidence- Based Dentistry, 07/02/09
Arpin S - Available results from RCT provide evidence that mechanical oral hygiene decreases mortality risk from pneumonia and seems to have a clinically relevant preventive effect on nonfatal pneumonia in independent elderly individuals. The data show that providing mechanical oral hygiene may prevent approximately 1 in 10 cases of death from pneumonia in dependent elderly people and indicate a largely similar effect for prevention of pneumonia.
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