Dr. Terry Grant is passionate about supporting elderly dental patients and enthusiastic about the role of dental hygienists in geriatric dentistry. In this interview, he talked about his mentors and described what he sees as one of the most pressing issues in geriatric dentistry: recognizing comorbidities.
“The elderly population has multiple medical conditions that a general dentist may not be able to create a treatment plan for,” he said. “There are a lot of dentists that can treat the elderly but those elderly that have cognitive impairments and comorbidities, that population needs a little extra education to get that population taken care of.”
Grant said that by 2060, one-quarter of the people in America will be over age 65.
Mary Guiden 