Oral Health in Japan: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

Masanobu Abe^{1

2

3}, Akihisa Mitani¹, Atsushi Yao¹, Liang Zong³, Chun-Dong Zhang^{3

4}, Kazuto Hoshi², Shintaro Yanagimoto¹

Affiliations

¹ Division for Health Service Promotion, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
² Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
³ Division of Epigenomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
⁴ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.

Editorial

Masanobu Abe et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022.

. 2022 Jul 6;19(14):8232.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148232.

Masanobu Abe^{1

2

3}, Akihisa Mitani¹, Atsushi Yao¹, Liang Zong³, Chun-Dong Zhang^{3

4}, Kazuto Hoshi², Shintaro Yanagimoto¹

¹ Division for Health Service Promotion, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
² Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
³ Division of Epigenomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan.
⁴ Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.

Abstract

In the near future, Japan is entering a super-aging society that will be called the age of 100 years of life [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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