ArticleScientific reports2025
Longitudinal evaluation of the oral conditions of individuals with intellectual disabilities attending special Olympics events in Italy.
Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Oral Health of Athletes in Special Olympics Bharat (SOB) 2022.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric DentistryArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate longitudinally the oral conditions of athletes with intellectual disabilities who participated in at least 2 Italian editions of Special Olympics with a minimum follow-up of 5 (to 10) years. Data concerning home oral hygiene, oral signs and symptoms were recorded, and oral hygiene instructions were provided. The data of the first timepoint (t0) were compared with those from the second one (t1). Out of 2081 visits, 114 athletes met the inclusion criteria (mean age 26.8 years at t0 and 33.4 at t1). Toothbrushing once or more a day was reported by 83.3% of the sample at t0 and 95.6% at t1 (p < 0.05), while gingival signs in 47.5% at t0 and 52.5% at t1, respectively. The % of subjects with decayed, missing, filled and sealed teeth increased between t0 and t1. Oral lesions were observed more frequently at t1 (p < 0.05). A significant difference emerged for the mean missing (1.7 at t0 vs. 2.9 at t1) and filled teeth (2.9 at t0 vs. 3.7 at t1) values and DMFT index (5.7 at t0 vs. 7.6 at t1). A substantial stability/improvement concerning some indicators of general, oral, and dental health was observed in the studied population.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.