Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2020 June, 251(2)
Design and Progress of Oral Health Examinations in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project
AKITO TSUBOI,1,2,3 HIROYUKI MATSUI,1,2 NARU SHIRAISHI,2 TAKAHISA MURAKAMI,1,2,4 AKIHITO OTSUKI,1,3 JUNKO KAWASHIMA,1 TOMOMI KIYAMA,1,2 TORU TAMAHARA,1,2 MAKI GOTO,1 SHIHOKO KOYAMA,1 JUNICHI SUGAWARA,1,3 EIICHI N. KODAMA,1,3,5 HIROHITO METOKI,1,4 ATSUSHI HOZAWA,1,3 SHINICHI KURIYAMA,1,3,5 HIROAKI TOMITA,1,3,5 MASAHIRO KIKUYA,1,3,6 NAOKO MINEGISHI,1,3 KICHIYA SUZUKI,1,3 SEIZO KOSHIBA,1,3 GEN TAMIYA,1,3,7 NOBUO FUSE,1,3 YUICHI AOKI,1,8 TAKAKO TAKAI-IGARASHI,1,3 SOICHI OGISHIMA,1,3 TOMOHIRO NAKAMURA,1,3 MIKA SAKURAI-YAGETA,1 FUJI NAGAMI,1 KENGO KINOSHITA,1,8 SHIGEO KURE,1,3 RITSUKO SHIMIZU,1,3 KEIICHI SASAKI2 and MASAYUKI YAMAMOTO1,3
1Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
2Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
3Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
4Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
5International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
6Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
7Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
8Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
In order to assess the long-term impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the oral health of disaster victims and to evaluate gene-environmental interactions in the development of major oral diseases and oral-systemic associations, the oral part of two large-scale genome cohort studies by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo), including the Community-based cohort (CommCohort) study and the Birth and Three-Generation cohort (BirThree) study, have been conducted. The study population comprised 32,185 subjects, including 16,886 participants in the CommCohort study and 15,299 participants in the BirThree cohort study, recruited from 2013 to 2017. The oral studies consist of a questionnaire regarding oral hygiene behavior, clinical examinations by dentists, and oral plaque and saliva sampling for microbiome analyses, which were carried out at seven community support centers in Miyagi prefecture. The median age of all participants was 55.0 years, and 66.1% of participants were women. Almost all participants reported that they brushed their teeth more than once a day. The median number of present teeth was 27.0, and the decayed, missing and filled tooth number was 16.0, with a significant difference according to age and sex. The median periodontal pocket and clinical attachment level was 2.48 mm and 4.00 mm, respectively. Periodontal parameters increased significantly according to age, except for the accumulation of dental calculus. The oral part of these extensive cross-sectional studies provides a unique and important platform for future studies on oral health and diseases that elicit through interactions with systemic diseases, lifestyles, life events and genetic backgrounds, and contributes to researches clarifying the long-term effects of disasters on oral health.
Keywords —— dental caries; genome cohort study; Great East Japan Earthquake; oral health care; periodontal disease
© 2020 Tohoku University Medical Press.
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Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2020, 251, 97-115
Correspondence: Akito Tsuboi, D.D.S., Ph.D., Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8573, Japan.
e-mail: tsuboi@megabank.tohoku.ac.jp
Masayuki Yamamoto, M.D., PhD., Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8573, Japan.
e-mail: masiyamamoto@med.tohoku.ac.jp