Talk:Torus mandibularis

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My dentist believes that tori (which I have) correlate with exceptionally good teeth (which I have). However, PubMed found nothing. I searched for "Torus mandibularis, caries", which it translated to 'Torus[All Fields] AND mandibularis[All Fields] AND ("dental caries"[MeSH Terms] OR ("dental"[All Fields] AND "caries"[All Fields]) OR "dental caries"[All Fields] OR "caries"[All Fields])', finding zero results.

Wikipedia has no "evidence-based dentistry" article, and there's no such thing as "PubDent". Should there be an article explaining how to search for evidence on this subject?

Google Scholar found http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119500118/abstract, but the full text is not available; the abstract asserts that tori are strongly positively correlated with number of surviving teeth in people under age 50, which is not quite the same assertion. I'm a little uncomfortable basing encyclopedia assertions on "citations" whose full text is not publicly available and which I therefore haven't even read, so I didn't put this into the main article; but perhaps somebody knows of publicly available evidence on this.

24.18.229.67 (talk) 05:27, 15 July 2009 (UTC)