Tooth retention

Exposure

1 paper2 findings

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and 2 more
  • Humans1

Outcomes

2

Disability-free life expectancy

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Tooth retention increases disability-free life expectancy in humans (+1.6 years (95% CI 0.8-2.3)).

    “At age 60, non-edentulous adults lived 0.9 years longer (95 % CI 0.2-1.8) and spent 1.6 additional disability-free years (95 % CI 0.8-2.3) than edentulous adults.”

    Humans

    Missing teeth and missing years: Oral health and survival in a Brazilian aging cohort

    Archives of gerontology and geriatrics4 Mar 2026

Total life expectancy

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Tooth retention increases total life expectancy in humans (+0.9 years (95% CI 0.2-1.8)).

    “At age 60, non-edentulous adults lived 0.9 years longer (95 % CI 0.2-1.8) and spent 1.6 additional disability-free years (95 % CI 0.8-2.3) than edentulous adults.”

    Humans

    Missing teeth and missing years: Oral health and survival in a Brazilian aging cohort

    Archives of gerontology and geriatrics4 Mar 2026

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