Eighteen-month incidence of tooth loss among older adults in North Carolina. | Zendy

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Eighteen-month incidence of tooth loss among older adults in North Carolina.

Author(s) -

Ronald J. Hunt,

Claude W. Drake,

James D. Beck

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.85.4.561

Subject(s) - tooth loss , medicine , incidence (geometry) , demography , dentistry , gerontology , oral health , physics , sociology , optics

This study investigated tooth loss in North Carolina adults 65 years of age or older. A random sample of 335 Blacks and 284 Whites participated in dental examinations and interviews at baseline and again after 18 months. Blacks were more likely than Whites to lose at least one tooth (36% vs 19%), and they lost more teeth on average (1.0 vs 0.4). Several oral disease conditions and symptoms were related to tooth loss, but many other hypothesized factors were not. Risk models were inconclusive in the identification of factors related to risk of tooth loss.

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