Frontiers in Dental Medicine
Entrustable professional activities as a framework for longitudinal geriatric oral health curriculum reform in undergraduate dental education
Population ageing is increasing the complexity of oral health care and creating new expectations for undergraduate dental education. Elder adults increasingly present with multimorbidity, frailty, polypharmacy, functional dependency, cognitive decline, and social vulnerability, all of which require dental graduates to move beyond procedural competence toward integrated, person-centred, and collaborative care. However, the literature continues to show substantial variability and underdevelopment in undergraduate ger …