Calcified carotid artery atheroma on standard dental radiographs: A public health opportunity for cardiovascular risk reduction

• Main Authors: Vicky Mai (Author), Aneesha Taneja (Author), Hannu Larjava (Author), Babak Chehroudi (Author), David MacDonald (Author), Christina Luong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Calcified carotid artery atheroma (CCAA) can be identified incidentally on standard dental panoramic radiographs (DPRs). We sought to (1) determine the prevalence of CCAA on DPRs in a general dental population and (2) establish the proportion of patients in whom this would represent a new...