Global Burden of Oral Disorders in Adults Aged ≥65, 1990 to 2021: A Systematic Analysis of Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.

Int Dent J · 2026 · PMC12800408 · PMID 41447822

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

Globally, the burden of DALYs due to edentulism showed a decreasing trend (AAPC = –0.38).

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

Variable decreases were observed during 1990 to 1994 (APC = –1.33), 1995 to 2010 (APC = –0.21), and 2011 to 2014 (APC = –3.03); however, an increasing trend emerged in 2015 to 2018 (APC = 2.38) and 2019 to 2021 (APC = 0.57).

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