[Dental status and treatment requirements of the elderly population of Györ, a major Hungarian city (I)].

We performed a 'random sampling' oral health survey in a Hungarian city among the elderly population. This examination was a part of an International Standard Research. The most important result of this survey is, the high number of toothless and edentulous persons. Therefore, the demand for periodontal and restorative treatment is unimportant from the point of view of epidemiology. We emphasize, that it is very important to save the remains of dentition by improvement of personal ral hygiene, regular scaling and crown or bridgework in addition to prosthetic rehabilitation.