Income trajectories affect treatment of dental caries from childhood to young adulthood: a birth cohort study

• Main Authors: Marco Aurelio Peres (Author), Pingzhou Liu (Author), Flavio Fernando Demarco (Author), Alexandre Emidio Ribeiro Silva (Author), Fernando Cesar Wehrmeister (Author), Ana Maria Menezes (Author), Karen Glazer Peres (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract We aimed to analyze the effects of family income trajectories on the increase in dental caries from childhood to young adulthood. Data from the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study, in which dental caries was measured at ages 6, 12, and 18 years, were analyzed. Family income of 302 part...