Unraveling the Epidemiology of Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection

Sonawane and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011 to 2014, to analyze differences between men and women in the prevalence of oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the concordance of oral and genital HPV infection. Here, the editorialist discusses the study's findings and why standard epidemiologic analyses are fraught with inferential limitations. Advancing understanding will require dynamic, agent-based, and mechanistic mathematical models to fully capture the complexity of the natural history of HPV infection.

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