JANUARY 2021 JADA 

The authors observe the rates of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus and determine whether aspects of periodontal disease are independently associated with prevalent undiagnosed diabetes mellitus.

The authors assess the frequency of dental practitioners’ health risk assessments practices for 6 health conditions.

The authors assess the risk of developing bleeding during oral surgery procedures in patients with liver cirrhosis and appropriate recommendations for oral surgery procedures in patients with liver cirrhosis.

The authors examine the burden of untreated caries and its association with reporting an unmet oral health care need among working-age adults.

The authors present the case of a patient with a symptomatic necrotic root canal.

The authors ask readers to diagnose the case of an 18-year-old man in good overall health who was seen by his general dentist with an expansile, radiolucent lesion of the right posterior mandible.

The author summarizes studies on conventional, biological, and preventive caries management among children 3 through 7 years of age; suicide and job satisfaction; periodontal health of patients with shortened dental arches; and oral lesions associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.