Dental Status is Associated With Incident Functional Disability in Community-Dwelling Older Japanese: A Prospective Cohort Study Using Propensity Score Matching.
Takamasa KomiyamaTakashi OhiYasutake TomataFumiya TanjiIchiro TsujiMakoto WatanabeYoshinori HattoriPublished in: Journal of epidemiology (2019)
In this prospective cohort study targeting community-dwelling older adults in Japan, having less than 20 teeth was confirmed to be an independent risk factor for functional disability even after conducting propensity score matching. This study supports previous publications showing that oral health is associated with functional disability.