... that the oral health of the independently living elderly would be better than the oral health of the elderly living in the institutions. Vigild (1987) showed that approximately half of the institutionalised ... Unfortunately, in these studies the number of elderly inhabitants has been rather small, and therefore practically no data exists on prosthetic rehabilitation of home dwelling elderly. There ... of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki, in the main auditorium of the Institute of Dentistry, Mannerheimintie 172, Helsinki on June 11, 2004, at 12 noon Helsinki 2004 207....