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Periodontal Status and the Risk of All-Cause Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia in a Community: The Hisayama Study.

Journal of clinical periodontology · Furuta M, Ohara T, Sakata S, Shibata M, Oishi E, Furuta Y, Kageyama S, Asakawa M, Shimazaki Y, Takeshita T, Ninomiya T · 2026-08-16

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