Volume 30, Issue 2 pp. 754-768
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

The global burden of periodontal diseases in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019

Xuexue Zhang

Xuexue Zhang

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Xujie Wang

Xujie Wang

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Jingxian Wu

Jingxian Wu

China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Miaoran Wang

Miaoran Wang

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Biaoyan Hu

Biaoyan Hu

Graduate School of Peking University, Beijing, China

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Hua Qu

Corresponding Author

Hua Qu

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Hua Qu, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No. 1, Xiyuan Playground, Zhong Zhi Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100091, China.

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Qiuyan Li, Department of General Medicine, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No. 1, Xiyuan Playground, Zhong Zhi Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100091, China.

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Jiwei Zhang

Jiwei Zhang

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Qiuyan Li

Corresponding Author

Qiuyan Li

Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

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Hua Qu, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No. 1, Xiyuan Playground, Zhong Zhi Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100091, China.

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Qiuyan Li, Department of General Medicine, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, No. 1, Xiyuan Playground, Zhong Zhi Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100091, China.

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First published: 11 November 2022
Citations: 7

Xuexue Zhang, Xujie Wang, and Jingxian Wu are shared first authors and contributed equally to the article.

Hua Qu and Qiuyan Li contributed equally to the article.

Abstract

Aims

The aim of this study was to report the incidence, prevalence, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of periodontal diseases during the period 1990–2019.

Methods

Data on periodontal diseases were retrieved from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors study (GBD) 2019. The estimated annual percentage changes were calculated to evaluate the changing trend of age-standardized incidence, prevalence, and DALY rates related to periodontal diseases.

Results

Globally, there were 1,087,367,744.0 cases with 91,518,820.6 new incidence and 7,090,390.3 DALYs of periodontal diseases in 2019, almost twice as many as in 1990. Moreover, the pace of increase in age-standardized incidence, age-standardized prevalence, and age-standardized DALY rates had accelerated during the 1990–2019 time period, with EAPC of 0.29 (95% CI, 0.22 to 0.35), 0.34 (95% CI, 0.26 to 0.43), and 0.35 (95% CI, 0.27 to 0.44) separately. The corresponding age-standardized percentage changes were more pronounced in females, Southeast Asia, and low-middle SDI regions. Western Sub-Saharan Africa was the high-risk area of standardized periodontal diseases burden in 2019, among which Gambia was the country with the heaviest burden.

Conclusion

The globally incidence, prevalence, and DALYs of periodontal diseases are substantially increased from 1990 to 2019, which highlights the importance and urgency of periodontal care.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The data used for these analyses are all publicly available at online GBD repository (http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool).

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