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Type: Journal article
Title: Oral health of community-dwelling older Australian men: the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP)
Author: Wright, F.
Chu, S.
Milledge, K.
Valdez, E.
Law, G.
Hsu, B.
Naganathan, V.
Hirani, V.
Blyth, F.
Le Couteur, D.
Harford, J.
Waite, L.
Handelsman, D.
Seibel, M.
Cumming, R.
Citation: Australian Dental Journal, 2018; 63(1):55-65
Publisher: Wiley
Issue Date: 2018
ISSN: 0045-0421
1834-7819
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FAC Wright, SK- Y Chu, KL Milledge, E Valdez, G Law, B Hsu, V Naganathan, V Hirani, FM Blyth, DG Le Couteur, J Harford, LM Waite, DJ Handelsman, MJ Seibel, RG Cumming
Abstract: Background: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP) is a cohort study of the health of a representative sample of Australian men aged 70 years and older. The aim of this report is to describe the oral health of these men. Methods: Oral health was assessed when the men were all aged 78 years or older. Two calibrated examiners conducted a standardized intraoral assessment. Descriptive data were analysed by statistical association tests. Participants were excluded from the collection of some periodontal assessments if they had a medical contraindication. Results: Dental assessments of 614 participants revealed 90 (14.6%) were edentate. Men had a mean of 13.8 missing teeth and 10.3 filled teeth. Dentate participants had a mean of 1.1 teeth with active coronal decay. Those in the low‐income group had a higher rate of decayed teeth and lower rate of filled teeth. Thirty‐four participants (5.5%) had one or more dental implants, and 66.3% relied on substitute natural teeth for functional occlusion. Of those with full periodontal assessments; 90.9% had sites with pocket depths of 3 mm or more, 96.6% had sites with CAL of 5 mm or more, and 79.7% had three or more sites with GI scores of 2 or more. Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of periodontal diseases and restorative burden of dentitions, which suggests that greater attention needs to be given to prevention and health maintenance in older Australian men.
Keywords: Ageing
cohort study
dental epidemiology
older Australian men
oral health
Rights: © 2017 The Authors. Australian Dental Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Dental Association This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
DOI: 10.1111/adj.12564
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1065649
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/adj.12564
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