“…As mentioned above, lower SES seems to be related to general health and oral health (Vettore et al , ), so participants with a lower SES probably had a higher risk of becoming frail and/or ending up with oral health problems. This points toward the need to urge elderly to continue to visit their dentists and to maintain an adequate level of oral care, either by themselves or, when they are not able to self‐maintain their oral health, by caregivers (Gerritsen et al , ). Unfortunately, this need to safeguard a proper level of oral care was not common in our community‐living participants, especially in edentulous elderly of whom only 20% visited the dentist, oral hygienist, or dental technician the last two years.…”