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Prof. Kakuhiro Fukai
Kakuhiro Fukai, D.D.S., Ph.D., is director of the Fukai Institute of Health Science (Japan), visiting professor at Kanagawa Dental University, and visiting researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Public Health. He also serves as chair of FDI’s Oral Health for Ageing Population Task Team (2015-2019, 2021-2024). In addition, he has served as director of Japan Dental Association and executive director of the 8020 Promotion Foundation (2013-2019). He has also maintained a private dental practice for the past thirty years.
Performing all of these roles simultaneously has provided him with practical experience and academic expertise at both the global and local level and in all stages of the evidence-policy-practice-evaluation cycle. His research activities have focused on global oral health, the link between oral and systemic health, and healthy longevity. He has published over 300 research articles and 50 books on oral health promotion. Representative of his work is a long-term cohort study of Japanese community residents’ oral health and longevity initiated in 1987, which remains ongoing. He also edited The Current Evidence of Dental Care and Oral Health for Achieving Healthy Longevity in an Aging Society (Japan Dental Association, 2015), the most thorough and globally comprehensive review of its kind. His social contributions also include annual visits to Nepal for the past thirty years to conduct community health and oral health promotion activities with the Association of Dental Cooperation in Nepal, of which he currently serves as president.
Prof. Judith Jones
Judith Ann Jones, D.D.S. is Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy. Dr. Jones is an expert spokeswoman on eldercare for the American Dental Association, a professional organization representing approximately 159,000 U.S. dentists. Dr. Jones serves as Executive Director and is Past President of the American Board of Dental Public Health. She earned her D.D.S. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC, and a Doctor of Science in Dentistry degree in Dental Public Health from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. She is board certified in Dental Public Health and Geriatric Dentistry.
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32 Comments
thank you very much
Good afternoon from Ghana.
Most grateful for your insightful thoughts.
Please, could you kindly provide a simple pathway or method in settings where policies on oral health is non-existent much less for the ageing population.
Thank you.
Since oral candidiasis and ulcerations are the most common lesions in the aging population, is there a daily therapy or rinse that you would recommend that could easily and widely be implemented in the aging population as a preventive measure?
How do you feel aout chronic diseases associated with Implant -fixed prosthesis with acrylic case… i.e lack of proper removing microbial from the prosthesis
Do you think wearing only a disposable gown when caring for the patient is sufficient personal protection? Greetings from Villahermosa, Tabasco, México
¿cual es la importancia de considerar el uso de medicamentos en la población adulta mayor?
Why there is not a separate speciality of dentistry viz geriatric medicine dentistry in all the countries of the world?
Are you aware that in medicalised homes for dependant patients there is no dental hygiene at all . Even in the very expansive ones .what can we do about that?
Good evening doctor i am korean whose taking up dentistry. What is the difficult or challenge moment dealing with ageing people to deal oral care?
Thank you very much for the informative lectures. How can oral health professionals deal with poly pharmacies among older population?
Thank you for the presentation. General health is the necessity to include the oral health. The need of the hour. More policies are required to do so. Can you highlight any such policies.
Thanks a lot for the webinar!!
What is the best way to educate elderly people in low and middle income countries..
Thank you very much for very informative webinar
What is that management for low ridges
proff – what % of practice turnover should be spent on aged and compromised patients? (thanks)
Good evening from nepal..
Common oral mucosal lesions in gediatric population?
Thank you very much for your insightful presentation.
Good morning from Lima Perú.
Good day everyone
Good morning from Texas!
Considering the economic status of aging population in every society, will the result of the data significantly change?
Good Morning from the United States
The Japanese community has been seen to be averse to the shortened dental arch as a treatment option. What’s your opinion wrt the SDA seeing that many are retaining teeth into old age Prof Fukai.
Good evening everyone from Ukraine!!! Khudiakova Maryna!!! Thanks a lot for important information!!!!
Góis morning from Brasília!
What are the common oral mucosal disorders in Ageing population
What is the standard oral health care for ageing population?
Salam
Good morning everybody from Mexico!
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