At the presenttime health promotion and prevention has a significant place in Stomatologyworld, this is necessary to assess and to renovate our programs in such a waythat each time it be more preventive and educational, to improve life qualityof our patients. Geriatric population has showed a intense growing at nationalland international scale, whose estimate of the people older than 60 years willincrease for 2010 year in a 17% or more. We must to think about that every daymore persons exceed the chronologic barriers placed by men as a stage of oldage, converting thus population aging in a challenge for present societies,since although we consider it as one of more important achievement of the mankind,and at the same time it is transformed in a problem, if we not be able to giveproper solutions to consequences derived from it. These bibliographic reviewstry to update the knowledges on need of to apply a promotion and preventionprogram that being of benefit for patients older than 60 years or more, rehabilitatedor not from the point of view prosthestic.
