Social Determinants of Oral Health: State-Level Analysis of Edentulism in Older Adults.
Researchers analysed state-level data from 2012–2020 to identify factors associated with tooth loss in older US adults, finding that education and smoking had the strongest links to edentulism rates across states.
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