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

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...

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Autores principales: Yu, Yau-Hua, Cheung, Wai S., Steffensen, Bjorn, Miller, Donald R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8574051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34749715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01934-0