Application of zero-inflated Poisson model with heterogeneous random effects to evaluate the effect of oral health education on pregnant women's dental caries: A longitudinal experimental study

• Main Authors: Somayeh Ahmadi Gooraji (Author), Farid Zayeri (Author), Yeganeh Sharifnejad (Author), Zahra Ghorbani (Author), Marzie Deghatipour (Author), Maryam Heydarpour Meymeh (Author), Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Pregnant women have poor knowledge of oral hygiene during pregnancy. One problem with the follow-up of dental caries in this group is zero accumulation in the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index, for which some models must be used to achieve valid results. The studied populat...