ReviewCureus2023
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Assessing the Role of Oral Health as a Risk Factor in Oral Cancer.
Review in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Investigating the Association Between Oral Hygiene and Oral Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Oral diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Examining the link between tooth loss and multiple health outcomes: a comprehensive synthesis of evidence from meta-analyses.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Oral hygiene, dental caries, and periodontal status in the migrant population. A systematic review, a 10-year study.Head & face medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Automatic Oral Cancer Detection Using Improved Honey Badger Algorithm-Based Feature Selection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Oral hygiene and cancer risk: emerging evidence and public health perspectives.Discover oncology · 2026Review
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- Interconnected Mechanistic Pathways, Molecular Biomarkers, and Therapeutic Approach of Oral Cancer in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Association between dental scaling and the lower risk of oral cancer: A population-based nested case-control study.Journal of dental sciences · 2025Article
- Lip and oral cavity cancer in Iran from 1990 to 2019 based on the global burden of disease study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Alveolar bone loss is associated with oral cancer: a case-control study.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- Association Between Oral Health and Gastric Cancer in Korean Adults.The Korean journal of helicobacter and upper gastrointestinal research · 2024Article
- Efficacy of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy in squamous cell carcinoma of oral tongue: Long-term outcomes.Journal of contemporary brachytherapy · 2024Article
- Causes of death after oral cancer diagnosis: a population based study.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- ABO Blood Groups as Predictors of Oral Malignancy Risk - A Retrospective Study.Annals of maxillofacial surgeryArticle
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the leading type of cancer in Southeast Asian countries and many parts of the world. Many factors increase the risk of oral cancer, like tobacco, betel nuts, alcohol consumption, sharp teeth, infections, and other factors. Oral health-related issues have been reported in many studies of oral cancer, but there is a need to understand the role of the same as a risk factor. The systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to assess the role of oral health as a risk factor in oral cancer. The population diagnosed with oral cancer (P) of all age groups and both gender, exposure (E) is oral health (includes poor oral hygiene, periodontal disease, and other oral diseases excluding oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD)), the comparator (C), is patients without oral health issues, outcome (O) is the role of poor oral health as a risk factor for oral cancer. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted. The databases used for the search were PubMed, Cochrane Database, Embase, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The unpublished reports, reviews, and grey literature were considered. Case-control studies were included assessing poor oral health as a risk factor with odds ratio as an effective measure. Newcastle Ottawa Scale for risk of bias in the case-control study was considered. The study results showed that tooth loss odds ratio (OR)=1.13, CI (0.99-1.26), I
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