Weintraub Jane (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-7178-2028) Phillips Ceib (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-6845-7320) Factors Associated with Becoming Edentulous in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study Running title: Factors Associated with Becoming Edentulous Jane A. Weintraub, DDS, MPH a,b , Brian Orleans, B b , Margherita Fontana, DDS, PhD c , Ceib Phillips, PhD, MPH a , Judith A. Jones, DDS, MPH, DScD d a Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill b Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill c School of Dentistry, The University of Michigan d. School of Dentistry, University of Detroit Mercy A brief version of this paper was presented at the International Association for Dental Research, London, England, July, 2018. Address correspondence to: Jane A. Weintraub, DDS, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry, 4508 Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450. E-mail: Jane_Weintraub@unc.edu Telephone: 919-537-3240 Word counts for Abstract (260), Main text (2684) Number of tables: 2, figures: 2, supplementary tables (2) This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/jgs.16079