{"doi":"10.1016/j.focus.2025.100464","title":"Cannabis Use and Tooth Loss by Race and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity","abstract":"Introduction: Tooth loss is an indicator of oral health and may be affected by cannabis use. The authors aimed to examine whether cannabis use and frequency of past-month cannabis use (in days) were associated with tooth loss, especially among racial and/or sexual orientation/gender identity groups, in a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of Americans. Methods: The number of missing teeth was assessed in the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Past-month cannabis use was assessed as both a binary and continuous variable (days of cannabis use) in 2024. Backwards selection selected covariates for 2 multivariate models. Final models were stratified by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identity if the interaction with cannabis use was significant. Results: After adjusting for covariates, current cannabis use was associated with 1.157 times higher odds of tooth loss (95% CI=1.065, 1.257), although this relationship was found to differ by racial/ethnic subgroups. Among non-Hispanic Whites, cannabis use was associated with higher odds of tooth loss (OR=1.223, 95% CI=1.119, 1.336), although no significant associations were found among other subgroups. Among those who used cannabis, each 1-day increase in the frequency of past-month cannabis use was associated with 1.009 times higher odds of tooth loss (95% CI=1.003, 1.015). Conclusions: Cannabis use was significantly associated with tooth loss overall and among non-Hispanic Whites specifically. Frequency of cannabis use was significantly associated with tooth loss among those using cannabis. More research may be needed to fully understand the relationship among minority subgroups.","journal":"AJPM Focus","year":2025,"id":580464,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9001,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":501238,"name":"Sixia Chen","orcid":"0000-0001-5082-281X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":870279,"name":"Darla E. Kendzor","orcid":"0000-0002-7273-1916","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":374592,"name":"Fernando Luís Esteban Florez","orcid":"0000-0002-8351-0721","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":374595,"name":"Sharukh S. Khajotia","orcid":"0000-0001-8171-0474","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1491267,"name":"Heather R. Willmott","orcid":"0009-0001-2457-5680","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:58:38.868285Z","pmid":"42371492","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}