Characteristics of the oral microbiome in youth exposed to caregiving adversity.

ABSTRACT: Caregiving adversity (CA) exposure is robustly linked to increased risk for poor oral, physical, and mental health outcomes. Increasingly, the gut microbiome has garnered interest as a contributor to risk for and resilience to such health outcomes in CA-exposed individuals. Though often overlooked, the oral microbiome of CA-exposed individuals may be just as important a contributor to health outcomes as the gut microbiome. Indeed, outside the context of CA, the oral microbiome is well-documented as a regulator of both oral and systemic health, and preliminary data suggest its association with mental health. However, research examining the association between CA and the oral microbiome is extremely sparse, especially in childhood, when the community composition of such organisms is s

SUBMITTER: Gancz NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11401114 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature