Abstract

COSTA, Ana Cássia Reis da; RODRIGUES, Márcia Cristina dos Santos Guerra  and  LIMA, Rafael Rodrigues. Deficits of the masticatory capacity and the influence on the memory and the learning's review literature. Rev. Para. Med. [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.3, pp.51-54. ISSN 0101-5907.

OBJECTIVE: to correlate to the influence of the reduction of the masticatory capacity on the memory and the learning. METHOD: bibliographical review of publications most excellent on the subject in the international LILACS and databases Medline and in the database national BBO was carried through, investigating the described information in literature on epidemiology of the oral health of the aged one, alterations in the oral cavity and the influence of the chew on the central nervous system in normal and deficit conditions FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: it has relation between masticatory deficit and senile cognitive deficit in rodents, lifting the subject the importance of this theme to be treated in a multidisciplinary form inside of biomedical sciences, serving as hypothesis for future research in carrying human beings of masticatory deficiency.

Keywords : oral health; cognitive deficits and oral dysfunction.

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