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Oral health and mortality risk in the institutionalised elderly

Objective: Examining oral health and oral hygiene as predictors of subsequent one-year survival in the institutionalized elderly. Design: It was hypothesized that oral health would be related to mortality in an institutionalized geriatric population. A 12-month prospective study of 292 elderly resid...

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Autores principales: Marín-Zuluaga, Dairo J., Sandvik, Leiv, Gil-Montoya, José A., Willumsen, Tiril
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medicina Oral S.L. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3476025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22322487
http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17632