Open Access<p>Alveolar Bone Loss, Tooth Loss and Oral Cancer Mortality in Older Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
Yong Qian,
Huiting Yu,
Weijun Yuan,
JianYing Wu,
Qingyu Xu,
Nianrou Mei,
Xudong Wang,
Chunfang Wang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s263947
Subject(s) - medicine , periodontitis , retrospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , cancer , confounding , tooth loss , hazard ratio , cohort , cohort study , dental alveolus , dentistry , oral health , confidence interval
There has been growing interest in the association between periodontitis and systemic disease. In recent years, however, inconsistent results have also been found by case-control studies for the role of periodontitis in the development of oral cancer. This study aimed to examine whether periodontitis was an independent risk factor for oral cancer with a ≥75-year age group cohort.