Studies from National Taiwan Normal University Add New Findings in the Area of Dental Caries (Correlation between the beverage serving activities and the dental use of health care resources of National Health Insurance for common oral diseases): Dental Diseases and Conditions – Dental Caries

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2022 OCT 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Current study results on dental caries have been published. According to news reporting out of Taipei, Taiwan, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Background/purpose:: Taiwanese get use to drinking hand-shaken beverages. However, excessive sugar intake is strongly associated with the occurrence of dental caries.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from National Taiwan Normal University: “This study evaluated the correlation between the beverage serving activities and the dental use of National Health Insurance (NHI) for common oral diseases in 2016. Data on the population, the beverage serving activities, and the dental records of NHI were obtained from the related websites of government. These data were divided by cities and counties to investigate the beverage serving activities and the dental use of NHI for common oral diseases in 2016. In Taiwan, the value of beverage consumption per person had a moderate to high positive correlation with the dental use rate, the number of out-patient visits per 1,000 people, and the medical expenses per person for common oral diseases. For dental caries, diseases of pulp & periapical tissues, and gingivitis & periodontal diseases, their Pearson’s r values were 0.52-0.61, 0.18-0.40, and 0.58-0.65, respectively. These results indicate that the higher the beverage consumption per capita, the higher the dental use per capita.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “There is a long-term benefit for oral health and systemic health through reducing or avoiding unnecessary excessive sugar intake. Therefore, from a cost-effectiveness viewpoint, Taiwan government should develop a better oral health care policy including a health education strategy of appropriate sugar intake to prevent dental caries and other non-communicable diseases in Taiwanese people.”

For more information on this research see: Correlation between the beverage serving activities and the dental use of health care resources of National Health Insurance for common oral diseases. Journal of Dental Sciences, 2022,17(4):1510-1519. (Journal of Dental Sciences - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-dental-sciences/). The publisher for Journal of Dental Sciences is Elsevier.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2022.06.004.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Feng-Chou Cheng, School of Life Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Additional authors for this research include Ming-Chung Lee, Ling-Hsia Wang, Wen-Juain Lin, Tzu-Chiang Lin, Shiang-Yao Liu, Chun-Pin Chiang.