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ArticleDentistry journal2020

Possible Association of Periodontal Disease and Macular Degeneration: A Case-Control Study.

Federica Di Spirito, Michele La Rocca, Maddalena De Bernardo, Nicola Rosa, Carolina Sbordone, Ludovico Sbordone

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Article in Dentistry journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Federica Di SpiritoDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5458-6559
Michele La RoccaDepartment of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy.
Maddalena De BernardoDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.
Nicola RosaDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2366-6556
Carolina SbordoneDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Molise, Via Giovanni Paolo II, Contrada "Tappino", 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
Ludovico SbordoneDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi, Italy.
University of Salerno · ITUniversity of Molise · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral pathogens have been identified in bioptic specimens from Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) patients, and alveolar bone loss has been related to ARMD. Therefore, the possible association between ARMD and periodontal disease was investigated in the present case-control study, evaluating clinical and radiographic periodontal parameters, primarily, in cases vs. controls and, secondarily, in relation to ARMD risk factors, in cases, to highlight a possible pathogenic link between the disorders. Forty ARMD cases and 40 non-ARMD controls, matched for age (±3 years) and gender and homogeneous for ARMD risk factors, therefore comparable, underwent full-mouth periodontal charting, panoramic radiograph, and medical data, including ARMD risk factors, collection. Statistical analysis was conducted using the language R. Comparisons between groups were made using both traditional

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ARMDmacular degenerationperiodontitis

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PMID33374995
PMCPMC7822008
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