Modern Approach and Geriatric Aspects of Teaching Gerontostomatology in Training Specialists under the Specialty Program

The strategy of dental care for older age groups is based not only on the priorities determined by the demographic situation (guided by its development and the epidemiologically justified need for dental care), but also on improving the effectiveness of care, which must be based on the results of evidence-based medicine, as well as a personalized approach, implemented through the competencies taught to gerontostomatology students at dentistry schools. The aim of the work is to create a modern methodological basis for teaching the section of gerontostomatology within the modern dentistry curriculum. Based on the study of scientific works devoted to various aspects of gerontostomatology, the work presents the methodological foundations for modern teaching of the section of gerontostomatology as a specialty program at dentistry schools, focusing on the main areas of the specialist training curriculum such as cariesology, non-carious dental lesions, endodontics, periodontology, diseases of the mucous membrane of the oral cavity, and the basics of providing orthopedic dental care to the elderly and senile people.