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This cross-sectional study investigated the associations between oral frailty and body mass index (BMI) categories (underweight\/obesity), stratified by sarcopenia status. Methods: Data were obtained from dental checkups for 3829 older adults in Tottori, Japan (1489 men and 2340 women, mean age: 80.1 \u00b1 4.3 years). Participants were divided into sarcopenia risk and non-sarcopenia groups by using the Yubi\u2013Wakka test and then further subdivided by BMI into underweight, normal weight, or obese. Oral frailty was defined as meeting three or more of six oral frailty assessment criteria adapted from previous studies. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association between oral frailty and each BMI category, with normal weight used as the reference category. Results: In the sarcopenia risk group, both obesity and underweight were significantly associated with oral frailty. 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