2024 Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 393-399
Declines the population with a super-aging society and a low birthrate in Japan. Healthy life expectancy is approximately 10 years shorter than life expectancy, and shortening this difference will contribute to improving QOL and reducing medical costs. As we age, our physical and cognitive functions decline, making us susceptible to sarcopenia and frailty, however, muscle strength increases when you train, regardless of your age. The appropriate lifestyle habits (eating, exercise, and sleep) prevent frailty and maintain muscle mass and strength. Dentistry cares tailored to each life stage, such as instilling good chewing habits in childhood and correcting oral dysfunction and malocclusion, lifestyle-related disease prevention, correction, and appropriate prosthetics in adulthood, and prevention and maintenance of frailty and dementia in old age. Dental fields will contribute to a long and healthy life that preserves “deliciousness”.
