Systematic Review of the Association Between Respiratory Diseases and Oral Health

The purpose of this review was to investigate evidence for a possible etiological association between oral health and pneumonia or other respiratory diseases.

The following data sources were used: Ovid MEDLINE (In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Daily Update, and OLDMEDLINE); Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature; Evidence Based Medicine of Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; EMBASE; Health and Psychosocial Instruments; HealthSTAR; International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; PubMed; and Google Scholar from the earliest record until July 2005. Studies were selected from randomized controlled clinical trials and longitudinal, cohort, case-control, and epidemiological studies. Searches were limited to English language and human studies.