Old age should be regarded as a normal, inevitable, biological, phenomenon. Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that treats all problems peculiar to the aging patients, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility. The demographic shift in the Indian population has serious health implications. In future, dentists will be required to treat an ever–growing proportion of elderly patients in their practice and will have to make appropriate adjustments and advancement in their professional skills. The dental management of the elderly population is different from that of the general population because special considerations for age–related physiologic changes, complications of chronic condition/therapy and their implication on oral health, increased incidence of physical/mental disabilities, effects of medications on oral mucosa, considerations of other factors like nutrition, socioeconomic status, psychology of elderly in proper treatment planning and delivery of oral health care services to these patients.