{"id":217650,"date":"2026-01-05T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:06:23","slug":"dental-hygiene-key-to-predicting-mortality-japanese-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217650\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor oral health among older adults is closely linked to higher mortality rates and a higher risk of requiring long-term care, according to two separate large-scale studies by researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University and the Institute of Science Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Osaka Metropolitan University analyzed dental checkup data from 190,282 residents of Osaka Prefecture age 75 or older who underwent examinations from fiscal 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s12903-025-07275-6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The study<\/a> examined the relationship between dental condition and all-cause mortality (deaths linked to any cause), and found that death rates were lower among people with a higher number of healthy or treated teeth, while those with untreated cavities faced increased risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poor oral health among older adults is closely linked to higher mortality rates and a higher risk of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6779,131455,15453,134,131454,111,139,69,43235],"class_list":["post-217650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-aging","tag-dentists","tag-elderly","tag-health","tag-institute-of-science-tokyo","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-osaka-metropolitan-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}