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The Impact Of Access To Oral Health Care On Inadequate Oral Health And Multimorbidity, Luis Limo
The Impact Of Access To Oral Health Care On Inadequate Oral Health And Multimorbidity, Luis Limo
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The connection between oral health and other non-communicable chronic conditions—commonly referred in the dental literature as the oral-systemic health connection—emphasizes the role of oral health care on both oral diseases and chronic conditions, particularly in vulnerable populations like the elderly. This thesis comprises 2 studies: the first is a systematic review on the impact of oral health care interventions, as an indicator of access to oral health care, on chronic conditions of which their co-existence would result in multimorbidity; the second study is a cross-sectional investigation of the associations between oral health, access to oral health care, and multimorbidity among …