Summary of Physical Findings on Men Drafted in the World War

Britten, Rollo H.; Perrott, G. St. J.

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“…There is a paucity of data available with respect to the association between vitamin D and risk of caries. Dunning (33) used geographical variation/latitude as a surrogate marker of 25(OH)D due to UV-B exposure among World War I to World War II Army and Navy recruits (34)(35)(36) . Results were suggestive of a higher prevalence of caries associated with greater latitude.…”

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Predicted vitamin D status and incidence of tooth loss and periodontitis

Jiménez

Giovannucci

Kaye

et al. 2013

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective Vitamin D insufficiency is highly prevalent, with particular subgroups at greater risk (e.g. the elderly and those with darker skin). Vitamin D insufficiency may partly explain US racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of periodontitis and tooth loss. We evaluated the association between a predictor score of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and incidence of periodontitis and tooth loss. Design Detailed biennial questionnaires were collected on medical history, lifestyle practices and incident periodontitis and tooth loss. The predictor score was derived from variables known to influence circulating concentrations of plasma 25(OH)D and validated against plasma concentrations among a sub-sample. Multivariable Cox proportional-hazards models with time-varying covariates estimated the association between the predicted 25(OH)D score and time until first tooth loss. Subjects A total of 42 730 participants of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study aged 40–75 years at baseline were followed from 1986 to 2006. Setting USA, representing all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Results We observed 13 581 incident tooth loss events from 539 335 person-years. There was a dose-dependent significant inverse association across quintiles of the predicted 25(OH)D score and incidence of tooth loss. In multivariable analyses, the highest quintile of the updated predicted 25(OH)D score compared with the lowest was associated with a 20 % lower incidence of tooth loss (hazard ratio 5 0·80, 95 % CI 0·76, 0·85; P value for trend <0·0 0 1); UV-B was also independently associated. Results for the predicted 25(OH)D score and periodontitis were similar. Conclusions These results are suggestive of an association between predictors of vitamin D and lower incidence of tooth loss and periodontitis.

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Predicted vitamin D status and incidence of tooth loss and periodontitis

Jiménez

Giovannucci

Kaye

et al. 2013

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Teeth help in maintaining general health via nutrition, 9, 10 make a substantial contribution to one's physical appearance, 11 and have significant impacts on one's earnings 12 and employment opportunities. [13][14][15] Therefore, tooth loss may substantially affect an individual's quality of life. The goal of our study was to estimate the association between CWF exposure at various stages of life and adult tooth loss.…”

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The Association Between Community Water Fluoridation and Adult Tooth Loss

Neidell¹,

Herzog²,

Glied³

2010

Am J Public Health

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Objectives. We sought to estimate the association between community water fluoridation (CWF) exposure at various stages of life and adult tooth loss. Methods. We used data from the 1995 through 1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, merged with data from the 1992 Water Fluoridation Census, to estimate interval regression models that relate CWF exposure with tooth loss. Results. Our results indicate that CWF levels in the county of residence at the time of the respondent's birth are significantly related to tooth loss but current CWF levels are not. In addition, the impact of CWF exposure is larger for individuals of lower socioeconomic status. Conclusions. This study suggests that the benefits of CWF may be larger than previously believed and that CWF has a lasting improvement in racial/ethnic and economic disparities in oral health.

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“…8 With respect to employment, the anecdotes described above suggest that people who lack teeth may have trouble finding jobs (Shipler (2004); Eckholm (2006)). Military requirements result in rejecting or not deploying potential soldiers from service because of missing teeth (Britten and Perrott (1941); Klein (1941)) or poor oral health (Chaffin et al 2003) because dental emergencies interfere with combat readiness (Teweles and King, 1987). But there is no systematic evidence we are aware of that links oral health with labor market outcomes.…”

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The Economic Value of Teeth

Glied¹,

Neidell²

2008

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Healthy teeth are a vital and visible component of general well-being, but there is little systematic evidence to demonstrate their economic value. In this paper, we examine one element of that value, the effect of oral health on labor market outcomes, by exploiting variation in access to fluoridated water during childhood. The politics surrounding the adoption of water fluoridation by local water districts suggests exposure to fluoride during childhood is exogenous to other factors affecting earnings. We find that women who resided in communities with fluoridated water during childhood earn approximately 4% more than women who did not, but we find no effect of fluoridation for men. Furthermore, the effect is almost exclusively concentrated amongst women from families of low socioeconomic status. We find little evidence to support occupational sorting, statistical discrimination, and productivity as potential channels of these effects, suggesting consumer and employer discrimination are the likely driving factors whereby oral health affects earnings

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Summary of Physical Findings on Men Drafted in the World War

Cited by 23 publications

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Predicted vitamin D status and incidence of tooth loss and periodontitis

Predicted vitamin D status and incidence of tooth loss and periodontitis

The Association Between Community Water Fluoridation and Adult Tooth Loss

The Economic Value of Teeth

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