Influence of lack of posterior occlusal support on cognitive decline among 80-year-old Japanese people in a 3-year prospective study.
Kodai HattaKazunori IkebeYasuyuki GondoKei KamideYukie MasuiHiroki InagakiTakeshi NakagawaKen-Ichi MatsudaTaiji OgawaChisato InomataHajime TakeshitaYusuke MiharaMotoyoshi FukutakeMasahiro KitamuraShinya MurakamiMai KabayamaTatsuro IshizakiYasumichi AraiKen SugimotoHiromi RakugiYoshinobu MaedaPublished in: Geriatrics & gerontology international (2018)
The present findings suggest that a lack of posterior occlusal support predicted the incidence of cognitive decline, even after adjusting for possible risk factors in community-dwelling old-old people. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2018; 18: 1439-1446.