Carotid artery calcification in panoramic radiographs associates with oral infections and mortality

Int Endod J. 2021 Apr;54(4):638. doi: 10.1111/iej.13451.

S Paju¹, M Pietiäinen¹, J M Liljestrand¹, L Lahdentausta¹, A Salminen¹, E Kopra¹, P Mäntylä^{1

2}, K Buhlin^{1

3}, S Hörkkö^{4

5}, J Sinisalo⁶, P J Pussinen¹

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
² Institute of Dentistry, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, Kuopio, Finland.
³ Division of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Division of Oral Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
⁴ Research Unit of Biomedicine, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
⁵ Medical Research Center and Nordlab Oulu, University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
⁶ Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital and Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland.

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