Last fall I participated in a geriatric dentistryworkshop sponsored by the British Columbia Dental Association (BCDA).Th e topic of my presentation was delivering dental care to the patient and a facility in amobile setting. I believe the reason that this workshop was successful was that the facultyof dentistry at the University of British Columbia, with the support of BCDA, has begun an undergraduate program in geriatric dentistry and a mobile dental clinic that services long-term care facilities in the Greater Vancouver Area. Th is program was initiated by Drs. Chris Wyatt and Michael MacEntee,
who have researched and written extensively about delivering dental care to the geriatric population, a growing segment of our society. Two other undergraduate geriatric dentistry programs are taught in Canada, one at the University of Manitoba and the other at Laval University. Many good quality programs are also off ered in the United States. One excellent program off ered at the University of Iowa, under the leadership of Drs. Ronald Ettinger and Howard Cowen, deals with the important relationship between medicine and dentistry in the geriatric setting.