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Saving More Teeth—A Case for Personalized Care
16 Feb 2015
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BACKGROUND: Certain risk factors such as tobacco use, diabetes, genetic variations on the IL1 gene, and other inflammatory conditions are hypothesized to predict tooth loss in patients treated in a large medical center. Tooth loss trends are hypothesized to be greater in patients with more risk factors. METHODS: DNA samples for 881 individuals were taken from the Dental Registry and DNA Repository at University...
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