Vegetarian diet (any diet excluding all meat, poultry and fish) vs Nonvegetarian diet
Noncarious/cervical lesions and tooth wear (measures other than pooled dental erosion) · General population (children and adults) assessed for dental hard-tissue health
Beyond dental erosion, vegetarians tended to have a higher prevalence of other NCCL and tooth wear than nonvegetarians, reported narratively (ungraded).
1 finding from 1 review
- Vegetarian diet and its possible influence on dental health: A systematic literature review. 2020 All outcomesMultiple countries (mostly India; also Finland and other European countries, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago); community and clinical settingsEleven studies reported on NCCL using six definitions (presence of NCCL, presence of dental erosion, presence and severity of tooth wear, dental abrasion, cervical buccal defects); the six reporting presence of dental…Studies not reportedGRADE not reported