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Clinical consequences of untreated dental caries and school performance in low‐income adolescents
- Source :
- International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 31:619-626
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND The possible link between dental status and school performance has been investigated. The influence of the clinical consequences of untreated dental caries in this association, however, has been minimally explored. AIM To assess the relationship between clinical consequences of untreated dental caries and school performance in adolescents, and to examine the demographics and socioeconomic status pathways by which clinical consequences of untreated dental caries is associated with school performance. DESIGN A cross-sectional study involving 363 low-income school adolescents was conducted in the city of Manaus, Brazil. Dental clinical measures were registered by five calibrated examiners to evaluate dental caries experience (decayed, missing, and filled teeth index [DMFT]) and clinical sequelae of dental caries (PUFA/pufa index). School performance was assessed using school grade history obtained from official records. Statistical analysis was conducted using pathway analysis to estimate beta coefficients (β) of the direct and indirect effects between variables. RESULTS DMFT and PUFA/pufa mean were 1.93 and 0.30, respectively. PUFA/pufa scores (β = -0.19) and male sex (β = 0.35) directly predicted poor school performance. DMFT was indirectly linked to poor school performance via PUFA/pufa scores (β = -0.03). CONCLUSIONS Dental caries and clinical consequences of dental caries were important predictors of poor school performance in low-income adolescents via direct and indirect effects.
- Subjects :
- Male
Low income
Adolescent
Demographics
Dental Caries
Oral health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
stomatognathic system
Environmental health
Prevalence
Humans
Medicine
Statistical analysis
030212 general & internal medicine
General Dentistry
Socioeconomic status
Schools
DMF Index
business.industry
030206 dentistry
Pathway analysis
stomatognathic diseases
Cross-Sectional Studies
School performance
business
Caries experience
Brazil
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1365263X and 09607439
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b35479105805fe59c34d8a19ba318afe