The association between socioeconomic development at the town level and the distribution of dental caries in Brazilian children

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between dental caries among children in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and town-level indices of socioeconomic development. METHODS: We examined 15 385 oral-examination records from children aged 5 or 6 years old from 129 towns and cities in the state of Sã...

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Main Authors: Marco Aurélio Peres, Karen Glazer Peres, José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes, Simone Rennó Junqueira, Paulo Frazão, Paulo Capel Narvai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 2003-09-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892003000800001&lng=en&tlng=en