Vegetarian diet (any diet excluding all meat, poultry and fish) vs Nonvegetarian diet
Number of natural teeth (missing/present teeth, edentulousness, MT component of DMFT) · General population (children and adults) assessed for dental hard-tissue health
Evidence on the number of natural teeth was conflicting and could not be pooled (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 settingsSeven studies reported on the number of teeth with conflicting findings; meta-analysis was not possible due to inconsistent outcome definitions. One study found vegetarians had significantly more teeth; two found no…7 studiesGRADE not reported