3. AGING IS
A SLOWING OF NATURAL FUNCTION,
A DISINTEGRATION OF BALANCED CONTROL
AND ORGANISATION THAT
CHARACTERIZE THE YOUNG ADULT
4. GENERAL EFFECTS OF AGING
AGING IS MANIFESTED AS :-
TISSUE DESICCATION
REDUCED ELASTICITY
DIMINISHED REPERATIVE CAPACITY and
ALTERED CELL PERMIABILITY
5. IN THE SKIN
DERMIS AND EPIDERMIS ARE THINNED
KERATINIZATION IS DIMINISHED
BLOOD SUPPLY IS DECREASED and
NERVE ENDINGS SHOW DEGENERATION
THE ATROPIC SKIN CHANGES ARE
MARKED IN FEMALES
6. BONE UNDERGOES
OSTEOPOROSIS
TRABACULAE ARE REDUCED
CORTICAL PLATES ARE THINNED
VASCULARITY IS REDUCED
RESORPTION IS MORE PROMINENT and
GENERALIZED OSTEOPOROSIS OCCURS
MORE COMMONLY IN FEMALES
7. AGING - RELATED CHANGES
IN THE
PERIODONTIUM
1 GINGIVA and ORAL MUCOSA
DIMINISHED KERATINISATION
REDUCED AMOUNT OF STIPPLING
INCREASED WIDTH OF ATTACHED GINGIVA
DECREASED C T CELLULARITY
INCREASED INTERCELLULAR SUBSTANCES
8. DECREASED OXYGEN CONSUMPTION and
METABOLIC ACTIVITY
THINNING OF ORAL EPITHELIUM
INCREASED KERATINIZATION OF LIP and
CHEEK MUCOSA
ATROPHY OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE WITH
LOSS OF ELASTICITY
INCREASED NUMBER OF MAST CELLS
9. 2 PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT
INCREASED NUMBER OF ELASTIC FIBRES
DECREASED -- VASCULARITY
-- MITOTIC ACTIVITY
-- FIBROBLASTS
-- COLLAGEN FIBRES
INCREASED OSTEOSCLEROTIC CHANGES
REDUCTION IN WIDTH OF PDL
10. 3 ALVEOLAR BONE
OSTEOPOROSIS
-- decreased capacity of bone to with stand
normal masticatory forces
DECREASED VASCULARITY
REDUCED METABOLIC RATE & HEALING CAPACITY
INCREASED BONE RESORPTION & DENSITY
INCREASE CEMENTUM FORMATION
-- the total width of cementum at 75 yrs is
three times that at age of 11yrs
12. 5 MASTICATORY EFFICIENCY
REDUCTION IN MASTICATORY EFFICIENCY
IN AGED INDIVIDUALS IS THE RESULT OF
-- UNREPLACED MISSING TEETH
-- LOOSE TEETH
-- POORLY FITTING DENTURES
LEADING -- POOR CHEWING HABITS and
-- DIGESTIVE DISTURBANCES
13. 6 CUMULATIVE EFFECTS
GINGIVAL RECESSION
TOOTH ATTRITION and
REDUCTION IN BONE HEIGHT
PLAQUE ACCUMULATION DEVOLOPS MORE
RAPIDLY IN OLDER INDIVIDUALS
THIS IS MAINLY DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF
INCREASED GINGIVAL RECESSION
14. RAPIDLY DESTRUCTIVE PERIODONTAL DISEASE
OCCUR IN YOUNG PATIENTS AND ARE ASSOCIATED
WITH DEFICIENT LEOKOCYTE FUNCTION
ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS HAVE SLOWLY PROGRESSIVE
DISEASES THAT DOES NOT RESULT FROM IMPAIRED
LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION OR IMMUNE MECHANISM