ReviewCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2016
No Mental Health without Oral Health.
Review in Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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108 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 268 citations in OpenAlex.
- Oral Health, Anxiety, Depression, and Stress in Pregnancy: A Rapid Review of Associations and Implications for Perinatal Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Individualized Oral Health Care Training Provided to 6-16-Year-Old Psychiatric In-Patients-Randomized Controlled Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- A short-term approach for promoting oral health of internally displaced children with PTSD: the key is improving mental health-results from a quasi-randomized trial.BMC oral health · 2021Trial
- Psychological Assessment of Patients With Apical Periodontitis and Caries: A Case-Control Study.International endodontic journal · 2026Observational
- Mind the mouth: Are doctors doing inadvertent harm by not learning about dentistry and oral health?Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2026Article
- A History of Psychiatric Hospitalization and Surgically Managed Facial Abscess: An Observed-to-Expected Association Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Association of psychological distress with periodontal status, plaque accumulation, and salivary flow rate in psychiatric outpatients receiving chronic psychotropic therapy.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Oral consultation needs and diagnostic patterns by psychiatric disorder subtype among psychiatric inpatients in a general hospital: a retrospective study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Advancing Through Innovation: Oral Health Continuing Education for Behavioral Health Providers.Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Oral health care for Australians living with mental ill-health: unaffordable, inaccessible and invisible.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Silent Inflammation: A Critical Narrative Review of the Relationship Between Periodontal Disease and Psychosis-The Role of Oxidative Stress and Iatrogenic Comorbidities.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Association between dental anxiety and generalized anxiety among females in Saudi Arabia and Jordan: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Oral health and mental health: lived experiences of stigma and discrimination for Australians with mental health conditions.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: Associations Between Common Mental Disorder and Oral Health.Oral diseases · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation of the short-form Swedish "attitudes to and knowledge of oral health" (S-AKO) questionnaire in Chinese nursing professionals: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- The prevalence and factors associated with dental fluorosis among adolescents in central Sudan: a community-based cross-sectional study, 2025.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Social media addiction, maternal mental health, and children's oral health behaviours among immigrants.PloS one · 2026Article
- The association between caries experience and demographic, socioeconomic, and psychometric factors among persons with severe psychiatric and/or substance use disorders: a cross-sectional study.Acta odontologica Scandinavica · 2025Article
- Beyond Somatic Multimorbidity: Longitudinal Effects of Edentulism and Mental Health on Cognition in Older Adults.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Association of Chewing Difficulty and Number of Remaining Teeth with Anxiety (GAD-7) Among Korean Adults: Evidence from the 2023 KNHANES.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
48 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The poor physical health faced by people with mental illness has been the subject of growing attention, but there has been less focus on the issue of oral health even though it is an important part of physical health. This article discusses the two-way association between oral and mental health. In one direction, the prospect of dental treatment can lead to anxiety and phobia. In the other, many psychiatric disorders, such as severe mental illness, affective disorders, and eating disorders, are associated with dental disease: These include erosion, caries, and periodontitis. Left untreated, dental diseases can lead to teeth loss such that people with severe mental illness have 2.7 times the likelihood of losing all their teeth, compared with the general population. Possible interventions include oral health assessments using standard checklists that can be completed by nondental personnel, help with oral hygiene, management of iatrogenic dry mouth, and early dental referral.
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