Investigating tooth loss and associated factors among older Taiwanese adults

Wang, Tze Fang; Chen, Ying Yu; Liou, Yiing Mei; Chou, Chyuan

doi:10.1016/j.archger.2014.01.002

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“…A positive association between aging and tooth loss was found in other studies. [14,25,27] Individuals aged >60 had fewer remaining teeth than did younger individuals in several European countries. [25] The present study also showed that almost 87% of adults brushed their teeth more than twice daily.…”

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Influence of oral health behavior and sociodemographic factors on remaining teeth in Korean adults

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Han

Choi³

et al. 2016

Medicine

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In this study, the number and location of remaining teeth were analyzed according to sociodemographic variables, anthropometric measurements, and oral health behavior patterns. The hypothesis was that the number and location of remaining teeth would be affected by oral health behavior and by sociodemographic factors, such as education levels, household income, and urban/rural residency.This nationwide cross-sectional study was performed with a total of 36,026 representative Korean adults aged 19 and older. The data were taken from the 2012–2012 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Men had, on average, significantly more remaining teeth than women did. Women brushed their teeth more often than men per day and were more likely to brush their teeth after meals. The participants with higher education levels or household income had significantly more remaining teeth; the number of daily tooth brushing was positively associated with the number of remaining teeth; urban residents had significantly more remaining teeth than rural residents; and elderly adults had fewer remaining teeth than younger adults had (all with P < 0.05). The participants were more likely to retain their incisors (especially their canines) for their entire lifetimes than do so for their molars. From the incisors to the second premolars, they had more mandibular teeth than maxillary teeth, but among molars, they had more maxillary teeth than mandibular teeth. Elementary graduates with low household income had fewer remaining teeth than did university graduates with high household income (P < 0.0001). Finally, participants with high socioeconomic status were more likely to lose their molar teeth than anterior teeth compared to those with low socioeconomic status.The participants who brushed their teeth fewer times per day, those with low household incomes and/or education levels, and those who lived in rural districts had significantly higher prevalence of tooth loss than did other groups in Korean adults. Participants had more anterior and premolar teeth on mandible, but they had more molars on maxilla. In addition, participants with high socioeconomic status were more likely to lose their molar teeth than anterior teeth compared to those with low socioeconomic status.

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“…[14–18] Recently, studies have focused on sociodemographic variables as reasons for tooth loss. These variables include education level, income level, and characteristics of residency.…”

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Influence of oral health behavior and sociodemographic factors on remaining teeth in Korean adults

Song

Han

Choi³

et al. 2016

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“…Dogan y Gökalp 12 , en Turquía, estudiaron una población de adultos entre 65-74 años, concluyendo que los de mayor edad tuvieron más riesgo de no presentar dentición funcional. Esta misma situación fue observada en el Reino Unido por Al-Haboubi et al 15 , en personas ≥ 60 años y por Wang et al 17 en adultos taiwaneses de 65 años y más. A lo largo de la vida las personas experimentan una serie de enfermedades bucales, como la caries y las periodontopatías, las cuales pueden explicar esta asociación, ya que reflejan aspectos culturales y decisiones sobre extraer un diente como una opción de tratamiento odontológico.…”

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“…En el Reino Unido el porcentaje de personas con dentición funcional es del 64% en ≥ 60 años de edad 15 , 61% entre los de 65-74 años, de 40% en los de 75-84 años y de 26% entre los ≥ 85 años 16 . Por otro lado, algunos estudios han observado que las variables asociadas a la dentición funcional son sexo, edad, color de piel, uso de hilo dental, placa dentobacteriana, frecuencia de visitas al dentista, superficies radiculares cariadas, características salivales, tabaquismo, estado de salud dental percibida, estado mental, así como diversos indicadores de posición socioeconómica 12,15,17 .…”

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Prevalencia de dentición funcional en ancianos mexicanos

Islas-Granillo

Medina-Solís

Navarrete-Hernández

et al. 2015

Revista Clínica de Periodoncia, Implantología y Rehabilitación

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“…Nevertheless, it was still widely stated that there are some strong associations between self‐perceived declined oral health (or general health) and age (Ship ; Wang et al . ). Compared with younger age groups, elderly people often encounter ageing‐related impairments in physical and physiological functions due to the complexity of oral health status, systemic diseases and the use of multiple medications (van der Putten et al .…”

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On the Oral Health and Chewing Enjoyment of the Elderly: A Review from the Point of Mechanics

2016

Journal of Texture Studies

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With the advent of an aging society, the biggest challenge for the study of food science and technology is how to provide the best diet for older people with reduced chewing ability. General health is usually associated with oral health and healthy ageing is affected by what humans eat. Foods for the elderly should give them the maximum masticatory pleasure while satisfying their nutritional needs. It is well known that food oral processing is not only dominated by oral cavity structure and physiological state of human body, but also affected by the mechanical processes of food destruction in the mouth. Perception of food texture is thought to be the cognition of the human brain to the information of food deformation and fracture during oral processing. Increasing chewing difficulty due to the impaired dental functions is an major problem affecting the ability of food intake for many older people. From the viewpoint of mechanics, the manner of the deformation or breaking of an object is strongly dominated by its mechanical and geometrical properties of the materials and the conditions in which the object is loaded. It is therefore suggested that the food destruction process in the mouth might be investigated using the methods established in the engineering field. In this review, the main factors that affecting chewing behaviors of the elderly are analysed and discussed. The possibility of applying fracture mechanics theory and material structural optimization techniques to the design and production of food structures for older people is proposed. Practical Applications Population aging means that the food industry is required to provide best diet for older consumers who may encounter chewing difficulty and dysphagia problems. People with deficient oral strategy need foods not only having easy‐to‐chew/swallow feature, but also can satisfy their chewing pleasure. Food structure design is a new direction of food science for the development of food products. The fundamental issue is to have a proper understanding how designed food is formed and fractured in the mouth. This work analyses the main factors that influence the chewing behaviors of the elderly and introduces fracture mechanics theory into the field of food oral processing. It will provide a new view‐angle to understand both the food destruction process and the texture perception mechanism in the mouth.

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Investigating tooth loss and associated factors among older Taiwanese adults

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

Influence of oral health behavior and sociodemographic factors on remaining teeth in Korean adults

Influence of oral health behavior and sociodemographic factors on remaining teeth in Korean adults

Prevalencia de dentición funcional en ancianos mexicanos

On the Oral Health and Chewing Enjoyment of the Elderly: A Review from the Point of Mechanics

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