TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hagenfeld, Daniel
AU  - Zimmermann, Heiko
AU  - Korb, Katja
AU  - El-Sayed, Nihad
AU  - Fricke, Julia
AU  - Greiser, Karin Halina
AU  - Kühnisch, Jan
AU  - Linseisen, Jakob
AU  - Meisinger, Christa
AU  - Schmitter, Marc
AU  - Kim, Ti-Sun
AU  - Becher, Heiko
TI  - Periodontal Health and Use of Oral Health Services: A Comparison of Germans and Two Migrant Groups.
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
VL  - 16
IS  - 16
SN  - 1660-4601
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI AG
M1  - DKFZ-2019-02083
SP  - 3000
PY  - 2019
AB  - A cross-sectional study was performed with 251 individuals, consisting of 127 Germans, 68 migrants from Turkey, and 56 resettlers (migrants from the former Soviet Union with German ancestors) to compare periodontal health status, with a special focus on associations with lifestyle and anthropometric factors, and use of dental health services. Maximal pocket depth was used as a clinical surrogate marker for periodontitis. Other variables were obtained by questionnaires administered by a Turkish or Russian interpreter. The age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of periodontitis was significantly higher in Turks (odds ratio (OR) 2.84, 95
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:31434329
DO  - DOI:10.3390/ijerph16163000
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/144641
ER  -