Article
Temporal Trends in Non-Clinical Tooth Extraction and Surgical Complexity in Western India (2022–2025)
2026-05-09
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background.</bold> Dental caries and chronic periodontitis drive the majority of tooth removals worldwide. In resource-constrained settings, a meaningful fraction of extractions reflects not biology but household finances. Longitudinal data from post-pandemic India on this access-driven loss remain sparse, and the trajectory of non-clinical extractions across the inflationary p...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 53dc83b4-c5dc-5687-a7c2-5e6dbb317661
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9600729/v1
