Prenatal smoking and the risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Dental caries is a chronic complex disease of multifactorial etiology that affects a quarter of U.S. children. This study evaluated the association between prenatal smoking and offspring caries experience and used a negative control exposure analysis to assess if the association is causal.

Methods

Data from 1429 mother-offspring participants of the 1991/92 Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children conducted in Bristol, England were analyzed. Prenatal smoking (yes v. no) and quantity smoked (none,

SUBMITTER: Akinkugbe AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7554205 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature