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Health literacy as an explanatory factor in the association between life functioning scale and oral functional problems among older Koreans.

Community dental health · Kim YR, Kim SR, Cho BJ · 2026-08-05

Among older Koreans, those with lower life functioning reported more oral function difficulties, and health literacy partially explained this relationship, though the effect was modest.

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