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Denture wearing acts as a predictor for pneumonia in older adults
Overview
A recent study in the journal JDR Clinical & Translational Research found that wearing removable dentures is a risk predictor for pneumonia incidence among older adults.
Older adults are more prone to pneumonia, a common respiratory infection. About 1 million older adults are hospitalized per year for community-acquired pneumonia in the United States. T.T. Wu, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA, and colleagues aimed to determine if wearing removable dentures is related to an increased risk of pneumonia in a geriatric population in a retrospective cohort study.
For more information check out the link below:
Wearing Removable Dentures Tied To Pneumonia Risk In Older Adults: Study
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Dr. Nandita Mohan
BDS, MDS( Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry)