Number of teeth is associated with all-cause and disease-specific mortality

Autor: Yau-Hua Yu, Wai S. Cheung, Bjorn Steffensen, Donald R. Miller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: BMC Oral Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1472-6831
DOI: 10.1186/s12903-021-01934-0
Popis: Abstract Background Tooth loss has been shown to correlate with multiple systemic comorbidities. However, the associations between the number of remaining natural teeth (NoT) and all-cause mortality have not been explored extensively. We aimed to investigate whether having fewer NoT imposes a higher risk in mortality. We tested such hypotheses using three groups of NoT (20–28,10–19, and 0–9), edentulism and without functional dentition (NoT
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