1. Association between Dental Health and Osteoporosis: A Study in South Indian Postmenopausal Women
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S Govind, Manna Elizabeth Winford, Kripa Elizabeth Cherian, Nitin Kapoor, Thomas V Paul, Binay Kumar Pramanik, Sahana Shetty, and Nihal Thomas
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Health (social science) ,Osteoporosis ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Dentistry ,lcsh:Geriatrics ,lcsh:Gynecology and obstetrics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,stomatognathic system ,Tooth loss ,medicine ,Bone mineral density ,dental health ,Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry ,lcsh:RG1-991 ,Bone mineral ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,Postmenopausal women ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Dental health ,030206 dentistry ,medicine.disease ,osteoporosis ,Osteopenia ,lcsh:RC952-954.6 ,stomatognathic diseases ,Ambulatory ,Original Article ,medicine.symptom ,business ,dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry - Abstract
Aim: This study aims to objectively assess the dentition status in South Indian postmenopausal women and compare the dental health of osteoporotic participants with nonosteoporotic individuals. Materials and Methods: A total of 150 consecutive ambulatory South Indian postmenopausal women (>50 years of age) were assessed for their dental health using an internationally validated scoring system. Bone mineral density (BMD) was assessed using a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scanner. Results: About 39% of the participants were found to have osteoporosis and 23% had osteopenia at any site. More than half of them (57%) had poor dental health, and the predominant problems were cavities (43.5%) and loss of teeth (75%). Among 112 women who had tooth loss, the mean tooth loss was 4.8. The mean tooth loss among patients with normal BMD was 1.09 ± 1.2, in osteopenia was 2.1 ± 2, and in osteoporosis was 5.4 ± 2.8 (P < 0.01). The odds of having osteoporosis among the patients with three or more tooth loss were found to be 4.2 (95% confidence interval = 2.4–7.3). Conclusion: Postmenopausal women with osteoporosis had significantly higher number of tooth loss. Tooth loss may thus be used as a surrogate marker to predict osteoporosis.
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- 2017