2020 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 122-128
As you know, there are 4,620,000 patients with dementia in Japan by estimate. Now, we live in the super-aging society that any country has never experienced before. In the current situation where there are no disease modifiers even for Alzheimer’s disease, what medical workers including medical doctors, dentists, pharmaceutical chemists and others do for the nation is more disease enlightenment and preemptively preventive intervention. Such activities are prescribed by the Comprehensive Strategy to Accelerate Dementia Measures called “New Orange Plan” as Japanese national policy. From the prevention to the therapeutics, many investigations and studies for dementia are performed in each clinical department concerned. Needless to say, many suggestive clinical knowledge in an oral cavity region are reported from dentists, however these clinical information cannot become a common sense in researchers and clinicians for dementia.
Why is such a phenomenon occurred? One of the cause of the problem is a study design. For example, in spite of the preventive medical study for the mild cognitive impairment (MCI), it is an essential mistake by using Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) of neuropsychiatric cognitive examination. MMSE is not a screening tool for MCI but it for dementia.
I will make “a common language” a Key word and consider its reason and a solution for it in this article.
