How tooth loss and food texture impair egg white gel digestion in the elderly: Insights from the integrated bio-inspired oral mastication simulator and dynamic human stomach-intestine system.

Researchers coupled an oral chewing simulator with a dynamic stomach-intestine system to show that tooth loss progressively increases food particle size, delays stomach emptying, and reduces protein breakdown from egg gels in simulated elderly digestion.

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