Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42210819›Full record

ArticleActa odontologica Scandinavica2026

Dental healthcare utilization and mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden.

Martin Lindström, Aron Naimi-Akbar, Emma Lindström, Maria Rosvall, Mirnabi Pirnouzifard

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Acta odontologica Scandinavica, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Martin LindströmSocial Medicine and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. martin.lindstrom@med.lu.se.
Aron Naimi-AkbarHealth Technology Assessment-Odontology (HTA-O), Faculty of Odontology, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Emma LindströmSocial Medicine and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Department of Speech Language Pathology, Faculty of Arts, Theology and Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Maria RosvallSocial Medicine and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden; Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mirnabi PirnouzifardSocial Medicine and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe aim was to investigate associations between dental healthcare utilization and all-cause, cardiovascular (CVD), cancer, and other-cause mortality. MATERIALS AND

methodsA postal public health survey was distributed in the autumn of 2008 to a stratified random sample of the population aged 18-80 in Scania, southern Sweden (response rate 54.1%). Baseline survey data were linked to mortality data, creating a prospective cohort study with 8.3-year follow-up. The present study entails 26,115 respondents. Associations between dental healthcare utilization and mortality were investigated in survival analyses and analyses with a nested case-control design.

resultsIn all, 68.4% had visited dental healthcare <1 year ago; 19.0%, 1-2 years ago; 6.7%, 3-5 years ago; 5.5%, >5 years ago; and 0.4%, never. The groups that had visited dental healthcare 1-2 years ago, 3-5 years ago, and >5 years ago displayed increased hazard ratios of all-cause mortality throughout the multiple- adjusted survival analyses compared to the <1-year reference group. Conditional logistic regression analyses with a nested case-control design confirmed results with a clearer gradient in all-cause mortality. CVD, cancer, and other-cause mortality showed some significant associations with dental healthcare utilization.

conclusionsDental healthcare utilization was associated with all-cause mortality, with a clear gradient in the nested case-control design.

Indexed as

Dental CareMortalityAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCase-Control StudiesCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesSweden

Identifiers

PMID42210819
PMCPMC13224782

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.