ArticleEuropean journal of oral sciences2022
Pattern of caries lesions and oral health-related quality of life throughout early childhood: A birth cohort study.
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- Use of the oral microbiota as screening test to identify children at risk for caries development. A systematic review of longitudinal studies.European journal of oral sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Oral-health-related quality of life in adolescents: umbrella review.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Untreated early childhood caries is a potential disability: policy and programme implications for Africa.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Review
- A scoping review of the links between early childhood caries and clean water and sanitation: the Sustainable Development Goal 6.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Ozone Treatment for the Management of Caries in Primary Dentition: A Systematic Review of Clinical Studies.Dentistry journal · 2024Review
- Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Following Root Canal Treatment of First Permanent Molars Among Children. A Cross-Sectional Study [Letter].Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- The impact of general medical health status, demographical, and patient-specific variables on need for dental treatment of children and adolescents under general anesthesia.Clinical oral investigations · 2023Article
- A scoping review on the association of early childhood caries and maternal gender inequality.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Antibacterial Activity of a Bioactive Restorative Material Versus a Glass-Ionomer Cement on Streptococcus Mutans: In-Vitro Study.Dentistry journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of different patterns of dental caries on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) throughout early childhood. This birth cohort study followed 277 children from southern Brazil for 6 years. Demographic and socioeconomic variables were collected at birth. At age 3 years, children's dental caries experience was quantified by the decayed, missing, or filled teeth (dmft) index. At age 6 years, parents answered the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS). Poisson regression models were used to estimate associations between caries experience and later OHRQoL, presented as the ratio of ECOHIS scores between the groups. The prevalence of dental caries at 3 years of age was 37.5%. In children with caries, lesions only in anterior teeth, only in posterior teeth, and in both dental segments at age 3 were associated with age 6 ECOHIS scores that were 2.7, 7.8, and 6.2 times higher, respectively, than in children without dental caries experience. OHRQoL was worse among children with higher dmft scores. Dental caries lesions in posterior teeth by age 3 years was strongly predictive of adverse impacts on later OHRQoL, presumably as an indicator of continued disease experience in the intervening years.
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