Associations of social determinants of health with oral pain in U.S. adults: A cross-sectional study on the mediating role of cost-related barriers to dental care.

Researchers examined how social disadvantages relate to oral pain in U.S. adults, finding that greater social disadvantage was associated with higher odds of oral pain, with cost barriers to dental care explaining roughly one-third of this relationship.

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