State-of-the-Art of Oral Health in Japan and Other Aging Countries

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on the “State-of-the-Art of Oral Health in Japan and Other Aging Countries”.

Oral diseases, such as dental caries and periodontal disease, are extremely detrimental to public health due to their high incidence, successively known to be associated with various systemic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, rheumatism, cancer, etc. It is now widely recognized that oral health cannot be considered in isolation from other health problems, and its treatment and prevention are becoming increasingly important.

Japan is facing a super-aging society as well as a need to extend the healthy life span and improve the quality of life (QOL). To this end, one key issue is “oral health”, and the improvement of oral hygiene and chewing ability is known to be effective in reducing aspiration pneumonia and improving activities of daily living (ADL). Furthermore, from a long-term perspective, we have to focus on oral health in children and adolescents, not only to survive the super-aging society, but also to improve the oral and general health of the next generation.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts focusing on the current state of knowledge on oral/dental health in Japan and Other Aging Countries, all original (both of clinical research and basic research) and review articles being welcome. Other accepted manuscript types include methodological papers, case series, brief reports, and commentaries. We hope you will contribute your high-quality research and we look forward to hearing from you.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in JCM.

Dr. Masanobu Abe
Guest Editor

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