People who have fewer teeth are at a higher risk of experiencing chronic pain, according to recent findings.
The study included 8,662 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (J Pain 2024 Apr 6. https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(24)00449-8/abstract). Researchers found that, compared with participants with more than 20 teeth, those with severe tooth loss were twice as likely to experience chronic pain.