Poverty Dynamics and Caries Status in Young Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether timing, accumulation and trajectories of poverty are associated with dental caries in young adolescents.

Methods

The study was conducted within the Generation R Study, which is an ongoing population-based prospective cohort study conducted in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This study included 2653 children. Information about household income and number of children and adults living in a household at six time points from pregnancy to 13 years old was retrieved from parental questionnaires to construct the poverty variable. Dental caries was assessed with the decayed, missing and filled teeth index through intraoral photographs at the age of 13 years. Sociodemographic and oral health-related characteristics were included as possible confounders.

SUBMITTER: Carbajal Rodriguez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11754150 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature