ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Association of Tooth Scaling with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Analysis of the Corresponding Medical Expenditure: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.
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- Association of Treatments With Prevalence and Incidence of Periodontitis.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2026Article
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of non-surgical periodontal treatment to prevent strokes and myocardial infarctions in the United Kingdom.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2026Article
- Risk of pneumonia and mortality after routine dental scaling in patients with moderate-to-severe cerebral palsy: A nationwide cohort study.Journal of dental sciences · 2026Article
- Impact of public health and patient-centered prevention strategies on periodontitis and caries as causes of tooth loss in high-income countries.Periodontology 2000 · 2025Review
- Periodontitis and systemic inflammation as independent and interacting risk factors for mortality: evidence from a prospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Strong-field THz radiation-induced curing of composite resin materials in dentistry.Biomedical optics express · 2023Article
- Policies Supporting Oral Health in Ageing Populations Are Needed Worldwide.International dental journal · 2022Review
- Unexpected Relationships: Periodontal Diseases: Atherosclerosis-Plaque Destabilization? From the Teeth to a Coronary Event.Biology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Accumulating evidence has shown a significant correlation between periodontal diseases and systemic diseases. In this study, we investigated the association between the frequency of tooth scaling and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Here, a group of 7164 participants who underwent tooth scaling was compared with another group of 7164 participants without tooth scaling through propensity score matching to assess AMI risk by Cox's proportional hazard regression. The results show that the hazard ratio of AMI from the tooth scaling group was 0.543 (0.441, 0.670) and the average expenses of AMI in the follow up period was USD 265.76, while the average expenses of AMI in follow up period for control group was USD 292.47. The tooth scaling group was further divided into two subgroups, namely A and B, to check the influence of tooth scaling frequency on AMI risk. We observed that (1) the incidence rate of AMI in the group without any tooth scaling was 3.5%, which is significantly higher than the incidence of 1.9% in the group with tooth scaling; (2) the tooth scaling group had lower total medical expenditures than those of the other group because of the high medical expenditure associated with AMI; and (3) participants who underwent tooth scaling had a lower AMI risk than those who never underwent tooth scaling had. Therefore, the results of this study demonstrate the importance of preventive medicine.
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