Identifying Risk Factors for Dental Emergency Visits in the US Army

CONCLUSION: This study supports a relationship between demographics, oral health characteristics, and dental emergencies. Age may be related to service members entering the military with untreated or managed dental needs, notably around the age of third molar eruption. Sex differences may be related to willingness or preference to utilize non-emergency dental care visits. The inverse relationship between caries risk and dental emergencies could be due to identification and management of high caries risk patients. This project highlights the need for further study and increasingly discrete measurement of oral health care characteristics and coding for etiologies of dental emergencies.PMID:38536219 | DOI:10.1093/milmed/usae081
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research