Dental health status of community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over in Ireland. A cross-sectional analysis of the Wave 3 TILDA cohort.

HRB Open Res · 2018 · PMC8829095 · PMID 35187394

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Although mean number of teeth is a crude measure of oral health status, as it gives no indication of the condition of these teeth, it is nonetheless a positive trend that natural teeth have been retained rather than extracted.

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