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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">281</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2024.40803</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Dentistry</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Systemic and Oral Health Relationship Among Adults Attending Makkah Armed Force Medical Centre Dental Clinic&#13;
</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Binaljadm</surname>
            <given-names>Tahani M.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Halabi</surname>
            <given-names>Somayah A.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rummani</surname>
            <given-names>Ghassan M.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alsaadi</surname>
            <given-names>Hani B.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alandanousi</surname>
            <given-names>Anan A.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alalyani</surname>
            <given-names>Yousef S.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alzahrani</surname>
            <given-names>Abdulaziz S.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Hassan</surname>
            <given-names>Nisreen N.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>7</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>275</fpage>
      <lpage>283</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Background: Oral health affects systemic health and vice versa. Several systemic disorders such as such as osteoporosis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and hypertension may impact oral tissue either directly or indirectly. Oral health conditions can have an impact on systemic health by reducing patients’ nutritional intake and quality of life. Our aim in this study is to investigate the presence of a correlation between patients’ oral health and systemic health via panoramic radiography.&#13;
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Methods: In this original study, the included population comprised patients older than 18 years who received dental treatment at Makkah Armed Forces Medical Center between March 1 and August 30, 2023. We collected oral scores based on patients’ panoramic radiograph, and we assessed medical conditions based on patients’ medical records. We collected data using an Excel spreadsheet and statistically analyzed them using IBM’s SPSS Statistics software.&#13;
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Results: Over a period of 6 months, we collected data from 491 participants. Their mean age was 40.4 years (---PlusMinusSymbol---14.4 SD). Most of the patients we examined (67.8%) were normal healthy individuals (medical index: 0). We found no statistically significant difference between gender and nationality with respect to the medical index (MI) or oral index (OI). In contrast, age significantly affected both indexes. We found a positive correlation between the OI and MI.&#13;
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Conclusions: Our study proved that there is a link between oral and systemic health. With increasing age, both systemic and oral health deteriorated. However, future clinical studies with a large sample size are necessary.&#13;
</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>oral health</kwd>
        <kwd> oral index</kwd>
        <kwd> systemic health</kwd>
        <kwd> systemic index</kwd>
        <kwd> panoramic radiograph</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
    </article-meta>
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