Resumo (EN)
Elder people in Brazil has been raising progressively and is estimated that in the year 2020 the number of the aged people reaches about 30 millions in all country. According to the census realized in 2000, one in ten persons are 60 years or above. Problems of elderly people are most complex, since they are whole of alteration and systemical diseases, which act aggravating the oral diseases on theses specific clientele. Knowing all the psycho-social, systemical alterations and even the dependency level of these patients, united to the knowledge about the main oral alteration in geriatric patients, configure the profile to be analyzed by the dentist to the successful treatment.