Prevalence of dental caries in children born prematurely or at full term Prevalência de cárie dentária em crianças nascidas prematuramente e a termo

• Egile Nagusiak: Danuze Batista Lamas Gravina (Egilea), Vanessa Resende Nogueira Cruvinel (Egilea), Tatiana Degani Paes Leme Azevedo (Egilea), Orlando Ayrton de Toledo (Egilea), Ana Cristina Barreto Bezerra (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of dental caries in 192 children, 96 born prematurely and 96 at full term, in a regional hospital in Brazil. Mean age at clinical examination was 40.72 months in the full-term group (G1) and 30.44 months in the premature group (G2). The chil...