Racial differences in periodontal disease and 10-year self-reported tooth loss among late middle-aged and older adults: the dental ARIC study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate racial differences in the associations between periodontitis and 10-year self-reported incident tooth loss in a biracial, community-based cohort of US late middle-aged and older adults.

Methods

Subjects were 3,466 dentate men and women aged 53-74 who underwent dental examinations from 1996 to1998. In 2012-2013, telephone interviewers asked participants about tooth loss in the preceding 10 years. Separate multivariable ordinal logistic regression models were used to calculate proportional odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) as estimates of association between periodontitis and tooth loss for Whites and African-Americans (AAs).

Results

The majority of participants were White (85 percent) and female (57 percent) with 23 teeth on av

SUBMITTER: Naorungroj S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718983 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature