Missing teeth / tooth loss vs Fewer or no missing teeth
Malignant transformation (oral cancer development) · Adults in case-control studies (oral cancer patients vs healthy controls)
Pooling across all missing-teeth measures, the overall association with oral cancer was not statistically significant (OR 1.20, 95% CI 0.97-1.48; high heterogeneity, I2=82.8%); ungraded.
1 finding from 1 review
- Periodontitis and the risk of oral cancer: a meta-analysis of case-control studies. 2024 All outcomesNot specified · Case-control studies conducted in Asia (n=6), Europe (n=5), USA (n=2) and other countries (n=3) · Overall (all missing-teeth measures pooled)OR 1.20 [0.97, 1.48]6 studiesGRADE not reported