The Relationship Between Diet, Nutrition and Dental Health: an Overview and Update for the 90s

Moynihan, Paula

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“…Models were adjusted for age, sex, race, perceived income, physical activity level, life‐space, depression, and comorbidity scale, because these factors have been shown to affect quality of life 33–42 …”

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Association Between Aspects of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life and Body Mass Index in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Makhija

Gilbert

Litaker

et al. 2007

J American Geriatrics Society

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Association Between Aspects of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life and Body Mass Index in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Makhija

Gilbert

Litaker

et al. 2007

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…As described above, a significantly higher prevalence of root surface caries was observed in elderly participants aged 65–74‐years‐old, as well as ethnic minorities, nontea drinkers, and those whose household income was <10 000 yuan in the past year. A number of studies demonstrated a significant association between sugary food consumption frequency with root surface caries prevalence (13, 14). However, the results of our analysis did not reach similar statistical significance.…”

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Root caries patterns and risk factors of middle‐aged and elderly people in China

Jiang

Tai

et al. 2009

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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The objectives of this study were to describe root caries patterns of Chinese adults and to analyze the effect of selected demographic and socioeconomic factors on these patterns. A total sample of 1080 residents aged 35-44-years-old and 1080 residents aged 65-74-years-old from three urban and three rural survey sites in Hubei Province participated in both an oral health interview and a clinical oral health examination. Root surface caries prevalence rates were 13.1% in the middle-aged group and 43.9% in the elderly group. The mean number of teeth affected by caries in the middle-aged group was reported at 0.21 and 1.0 in the elderly group. Mean Root Caries Index (RCI) scores of the middle-aged were reported at 6.29 and elderly subjects were reported at 11.95. Elderly people living in rural areas reported a higher RCI score (13.24) than those living in urban areas (10.70). A significantly higher frequency of root surface caries was observed in elderly participants (P < 0.001, OR = 3.80) and ethnic minorities (P < 0.001, OR = 1.93). In addition, smokers, nontea drinkers, and those with an annual household income of 10,000 yuan or less tended to have higher caries prevalence. RCI figures for the different tooth types ranged from 1% to 16%, indicating a wide variation in attack rates. In conclusion, our study suggests that root surface caries occurrence is high among the Chinese adult population, especially older adults. With an increasing number of retained teeth in both middle-aged and elderly people, root caries is a growing disease in the People's Republic of China which deserves more attention in future research.

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“…It has further been suggested that the caries/sugars relationship may appear generally weak where caries prevalence is low and sugar intakes are high or relatively homogeneous in a population [Burt et al, 1988]. The absence of a significant correlation in Western societies may be because they lie on the upper flattened area of the sigmoid curve that describes the caries/sugar relationship [Moynihan, 1995]. Recently, Woodward and Walker [1994] studied mean DMFT scores and per capita sugars consumption in 12-year-olds from 90 countries, and found no evidence of a caries/sugar relationship in the 29 countries that were industrialised.…”

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Dental Caries in Pre–School Children: Associations with Social Class, Toothbrushing Habit and Consumption of Sugars and Sugar–Containing Foods

1999

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This project examined the relative significance of dietary sugars, toothbrushing frequency and social class as predictors of caries experience (caries vs. no caries) among 1,450 British pre–school children who took part in the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. This cross–sectional survey was based on a representative sample of children aged 1.5–4.5 years studied in 1992/3. Children were classified into four groups according to social class and toothbrushing habit. Diet/caries associations were examined for biscuits and cakes, sugar confectionery, chocolate confectionery and soft drinks, and the percentage of energy from non–milk extrinsic sugars, using data on amount and frequency of consumption from 4–day weighed dietary records. In stepwise logistic regressions, the strength of the association between social class and caries experience was twice that between toothbrushing and caries, and nearly three times that between sugar confectionery and caries (other dietary variables were not significant). The association of caries with sugar confectionery (both in amount and frequency) was only present among children whose teeth were brushed less than twice a day. Toothbrushing frequency appeared to have a stronger impact on caries prevention in non–manual compared with manual children. Household expenditure on confectionery was associated with caries only among children from the manual group. The findings suggest the hypothesis that regular brushing (twice a day) with a fluoride toothpaste may have greater impact on caries in young children than restricting sugary foods.

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The Relationship Between Diet, Nutrition and Dental Health: an Overview and Update for the 90s

Abstract: L. (1978). Variation in caries prevalence related to combinations of dietarv and oral hvAene habits and chewing fluoride tablets in 4-year-old children. Caries. I

Cited by 32 publications

References 197 publications

Association Between Aspects of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life and Body Mass Index in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Association Between Aspects of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life and Body Mass Index in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults

Root caries patterns and risk factors of middle‐aged and elderly people in China

Dental Caries in Pre–School Children: Associations with Social Class, Toothbrushing Habit and Consumption of Sugars and Sugar–Containing Foods

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