[SY3-1] Reflections on the life course journey to oral health in old age
【略歴（Curriculum Vitae）】Murray Thomson has been conducting gerodontological research for more than three decades, making important contributions to knowledge of the occurrence, antecedents and natural history of oral conditions in older people. He has published 429 papers in the peer-reviewed international literature and has an h index of 59 on Scopus, and 84 on Google Scholar. He is a past President of the IADR’s Geriatric Oral Research Group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Gerodontology, having been Editor-in-Chief for Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (Wiley) January 2015 to May 2021. From 2007 to 2014, he was Editor of the New Zealand Dental Journal. He has been an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Oral Sciences (Wiley) since 2013, and he was an Associate Editor for Gerodontology for three years (2012-2014), and for Special Care in Dentistry (American Special Care Dentistry Association) from 2007 to 2012. Overall, he has had direct editorial responsibility for more than 5,000 manuscripts. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2022, Thomson has the rare honour of two separate Distinguished Scientist Awards (the 2010 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award, for meritorious research in epidemiology and public health, and the 2014 Geriatric Oral Research Award) from the IADR, and he is the first NZ-based scientist to have been honoured by the IADR. In 2017, Thomson was in the team awarded the 2016 Prime Minister’s Science Prize, which went to 10 Principal Investigators in the Dunedin Study. In 2019, he was awarded the Chaffer Medal (for distinguished performance in health research) by the Otago Medical Postgraduate Society. In 2010, he received the Sir John Walsh Research Award (for research over an extended period by a member of the University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry). In 2009, he was awarded the Alan Docking Award for distinguished research in dentistry by the Australia-NZ Division of the IADR.
【抄録（Abstract）】
Research into the oral health of older people has burgeoned over the last couple of decades, spurred by increases in both tooth retention and the older population. Any consideration of oral health and ageing should acknowledge the fact that the chronic conditions of old age do not suddenly manifest themselves; rather, they have involved decades of subclinical organ system decline associated with biological ageing. Thus, the pace at which someone ages is a critical determinant of their health in old age. In this presentation, I will share some findings from New Zealand on the pace of ageing and on the oral health of older people, underlining the need for caution in interpreting associations observed in old age between aspects of oral and general health (most notably cognitive decline). I will also examine the concept of oral hypofunction.
Research into the oral health of older people has burgeoned over the last couple of decades, spurred by increases in both tooth retention and the older population. Any consideration of oral health and ageing should acknowledge the fact that the chronic conditions of old age do not suddenly manifest themselves; rather, they have involved decades of subclinical organ system decline associated with biological ageing. Thus, the pace at which someone ages is a critical determinant of their health in old age. In this presentation, I will share some findings from New Zealand on the pace of ageing and on the oral health of older people, underlining the need for caution in interpreting associations observed in old age between aspects of oral and general health (most notably cognitive decline). I will also examine the concept of oral hypofunction.