Critical Care
Aspiration Pneumonia Linked to Poor Dental Health
Following research on 95 elderly patients from a nursing home who were hospitalized for aspiration pneumonia, investigators concluded that the bacteriology associated with their disease could have come from microorganisms colonized in either their dental plaque or oropharyngeal cavity at the time of aspiration. More...03 Jul 2003
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