- Identify changes in aging dentition and its impact on dental care. - Have a general understanding of what routine geriatric dentistry assessment, radiography, and treatment entails, including required when to refer, practitioner time and healing time. - Recognize common barriers to care for the geriatric dental patient, the high price of dental neglect in this population, and current preventive dentistry approaches. - Understand the impact of certain disease states, such as diabetes mellitus, arthritis, and stroke on human dentition and on geriatric dental treatment planning. - Understand the impact of infection from the oral cavity on endocarditis, autoimmune disease, chemotherapy, joint replacement, heart murmurs and other disorders, and premedication regimens. - Recognize issues related to xerostomia and tardive dyskinesia in the older patient. - Recognize common oral lesions, normal structures and findings in the oral cavity. - Recognize oral cancer and certain pre-cancerous lesions and identify the patient who will require pre-operative medical clearance prior to dental surgery. - Understand treatment consideration in-patients receiving ionizing radiation to the head and neck secondary to head and neck cancer. - Learn the role of the geriatric dental treatment team and its function with other treatment disciplines. - Recognize common dentifrice, cleaning aids, mouth rinses and other products of use to the geriatric dental patient.