Mortality rates of community‐residing adults with and without dentures

To prospectively study how dental status with and without dentures could become a predictor of overall mortality risk.Five thousand six hundred eighty-eight community residents over 40 years old in the Miyako Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, were followed up for 15 years from 1987-2002.We found that female subjects with less than 10 functional teeth and without dentures showed a significantly higher mortality rate than those with dentures....