Abstract

Introduction: oral frailty has emerged as an important clinical concern associated with reduced oral health behaviours, less oral care motivation, compromised quality of diet, chewing and swallowing thereby the whole health. Frailty is a complex syndrome involving the decline of multiple interrelated systems. With advancing age, physiological reserves gradually diminish, and the presence of frailty accelerates this decline, ultimately compromising homeostatic mechanisms. This landscape brings the tool OFI-8, a patient reported outcome measure developed with propose to measure the oral frailty risk. Saliva is one of its components and has very important role in the oral frailty with several aspects as hyposalivation, xerostomia and fluid quality. Purpose: Observing the findings about risks in oral frailty and the role of salivary aspects. Keywords: oral frailty, saliva, older people. Methods: Articles have been selected since 2020, published with contents about oral frailty and saliva, and 4 were elected to integrate this mini review. The searching was for the keyword’s oral frailty and saliva, and only studies based on evidence. Conclusion: Oral frailty and salivary aspects demonstrate a strong and consistent relationship in older adults. 

Keywords

oral frailty, saliva, older adults