ArticleInternational dental journal2020
Dental pain and associated factors in Mexican adolescents and young adults: a cross-sectional study.
Article in International dental journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence and associated factors of dental pain among 15-year-old adolescent school children in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Toothache Prevalence and Its Contributing Factors in Dental Outpatients.Cureus · 2025Article
- Preparation and evaluation of a multimedia oral health education software for teenagers.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Development and Validation of Chinese Version of Dental Pain Screening Questionnaire.International dental journal · 2025Article
- Clinical Statistical Study on the Prevalence of Carious Lesions in First Permanent Molars.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Review
- Prevalence of Dental Pain in Schoolchildren Aged 6 to 12 Years and Clinical, Sociodemographic, and Socioeconomic Risk Indicators: A Multicenter Study of Four Mexican Cities.Pediatric reports · 2024Article
- The Association between Dental Pain and Psychological Symptoms: Evidence from a Population-Based Study in Indonesia.European journal of dentistry · 2024Article
- Article
- Self-Reported Dental Caries by Mexican Elementary and Middle-School Schoolchildren in the Context of Socioeconomic Indicators: A National Ecological Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo identify the factors associated with the prevalence of dental pain in Mexican adolescents and young adults. MATERIAL AND
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study in which data from 638 Mexican subjects, 16-25 years of age, who were randomly selected from college applicants, were analysed. Questionnaires were administered to collect sociodemographic, economic and behavioural variables. Clinical examinations were carried out to determine the decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) index. The outcome variable was dichotomised as 0 (no dental pain in the last 12 months) or 1 (dental pain in the last 12 months). Statistical analyses included binary logistic regression.
resultsAverage age was 18.76 ± 1.76 years, and 49.2% of participants were women. Prevalence of dental pain was 34.0%. In the final model, variables significantly (P < 0.05) associated with the experience of dental pain were the use of preventive dental services (OR = 0.34), being a former smoker (OR = 2.37), self-report of very poor/poor oral health (OR = 1.94) or fair oral health (OR = 1.94), self-reported dental disease (OR = 2.06) or gingival disease (OR = 2.84).
conclusionsThe prevalence of dental pain was associated with self-reported oral health status, preventive dental visits and smoking; these results have implications for dental practice. We found that recent experience of dental pain was common in young adults, being reported by one out of three subjects.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.