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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dent Clin North Am. 2017 Jul;61(3):533–548. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2017.02.003

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The estimated number of people affected by common diseases worldwide, with dental caries (tooth decay) affecting 3,054m people and periodontal disease (severe periodontitis) affecting 743m people.

From The Challenge of Oral Disease – A call for global action. The Oral Health Atlas. 2nd ed. Geneva: FDI World Dental Federation; 2015; with permission.