Association between presence of 20 or more natural teeth and all-cause, cancer-related, and cardiovascular disease-related mortality: Yamagata (Takahata) prospective observational study

• Main Authors: Shigeo Ishikawa (Author), Tsuneo Konta (Author), Shinji Susa (Author), Kenichi Ishizawa (Author), Hitoshi Togashi (Author), Yoshiyuki Ueno (Author), Hidetoshi Yamashita (Author), Takamasa Kayama (Author), Mitsuyoshi Iino (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Several studies have surveyed the relationship between the presence of ≥ 20 natural teeth and mortality. However, very few have evaluated this association over a long-term follow-up of more than ten years within a large population in Japan. This study aimed to prospectively confi...