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The study aimed to investigate the association between a composite Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) score and oral pain among U.S. adults.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This cross-sectional secondary analysis included 14,245 adults aged 30 years and older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 2011\u20132018. Weighted binary logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association between SDoH score and oral pain. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to evaluate the discriminatory performance. Mediation analyses were performed to quantify the indirect associations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Participants with oral pain had significantly higher and more adverse SDoH scores compared with those without oral pain (2.94 \u00b1 0.08 vs. 1.94 \u00b1 0.05,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001). In fully adjusted logistic regression models, participants in the highest SDoH burden category had 2.79-fold higher odds compared with those in the lowest burden category (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001). All eight individual SDoH components were independently associated with oral pain (all\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001). The addition of SDoH components significantly improved model discrimination for oral pain compared with a demographic-only model (AUC 0.654 vs. 0.574, Z test\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001), although the overall discriminatory ability remained limited. Mediation analyses showed that cost-related barriers to dental care accounted for 31.0% of the observed association between SDoH score and oral pain (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Higher social disadvantage, as captured by a composite SDoH score, is associated with increased odds of oral pain among U.S. adults. 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