• 1. Department Prosthodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;
  • 2. Department of Stomatology and Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 3. Center for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 4. Center for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 5. State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Basic Science of Stomatology(Hubei-MOST) & Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedical Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;
HUANGCui, Email: huangcui@whu.edu.cn
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Objective To explore the association between wearing dentures and the risk of head and neck cancer using meta-analysis. Methods PubMed, EMbase, CNKI, and WanFang Data were searched up to April 30th, 2014, for cohort studies and case-control studies about the association between wearing dentures and the risk of head and neck cancer. Literature screening according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, data extraction and methodological quality assessment of included studies were completed by two reviewers independently. Then meta-analysis was conducted using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis v 2.2 software. Results Eight case-control studies in 7 reports were finally included. The results of meta-analysis revealed that, low-degree association existed between wearing dentures and the risk of head and neck cancer (OR=1.08, 95%CI 1.00 to 1.16); and the results of further subgroup analysis (according to gender, cancer lesions, confounders adjustment, and publication years) also showed no significant difference. Conclusion Wearing dentures is not significantly associated with the risk of head and neck cancer (no difference regarding gender or cancer lesions). Due to limitations of this meta-analysis, high-quality studies with large sample size are needed to further verify the above conclusion.

Citation: CHENYong-ji, WULan, ZENGXian-tao, LENGWei-dong, DENGDong-lai, HUANGCui. Association between Wearing Dentures and Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2014, 14(12): 1424-1428. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140229 Copy

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