[Modern approach and geriatric aspects of teaching gerontostomatology in training specialists under the specialty program.].

The strategy of dental care for older age groups is based not only on the priorities determined by the demographic situation, guided by its development, epidemiologically justified need for dental care, but also by its effectiveness, which should be conditioned and based on the results of evidence-based medicine and a personalized approach, in the implementation of which it is important a competence-based approach plays a role in the process of teaching gerontostomatology students at a medical university. The aim of the work was to create a modern methodological basis for teaching the section of gerontostomatology in accordance with the modern curriculum of a specialist in a medical university. Based on the study of scientific works devoted to various aspects of gerontostomatology, the work presents the methodological foundations for modern teaching of the section of gerontostomatology on a specialist in a medical university in the main areas of specialist training, taking into account the modern curriculum in the field of cariesology, non-carious dental lesions, endodontics, periodontology, diseases of the mucous membrane of the cavity and the basics of providing orthopedic dental care to elderly and senile people.