PMID- 17146941
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070109
LR  - 20061206
IS  - 0034-8376 (Print)
IS  - 0034-8376 (Linking)
VI  - 58
IP  - 4
DP  - 2006 Jul-Aug
TI  - [Socioeconomic inequalities in oral health: dental caries in 6 to 12 year-old 
      children].
PG  - 296-304
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between caries indices in primary and 
      permanent dentition and socioeconomic indicators at the individual and ecologic 
      levels in 6-12 year old children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A comparative analysis 
      of two datasets depicting oral health status in Campeche, Mexico, with 2,939 
      children distributed equally by age and sex, was carried out. Oral health indices 
      were contrasted at different cut-off points in primary and permanent dentitions 
      (dmft, DMFT, dmft+DMFT and SiC indices) with independent variables such as place 
      of residence (urban, marginal-urban) and mother's highest level of schooling 
      (years of formal education) as socioeconomic variables (SES), as well as other 
      sociodemographic variables using models of binary logistic regression in STATA 
      8.2. RESULTS: The mean age was 8.85 +/- 1.83 years and 56.6% were girls. Nine 
      models were generated in which changes in socioeconomic variables were linked to 
      changes in oral health features in this community (both in terms of prevalence 
      and severity), except for DMFT > 0 at 12 years of age. CONCLUSIONS: In general, 
      children of lower SES had greater caries experience and higher caries severity, 
      in both primary and permanent dentitions. The relationships between oral health 
      disparities and independent variables were confirmed in children living in 
      geographically contiguous areas.
FAU - Medina-Solis, Carlo Eduardo
AU  - Medina-Solis CE
AD  - Centro de Investigacion en Sistemas de Salud del Instituto Nacional de Salud 
      Publica, Cuernavaca, Mor. cemedinas@yahoo.com
FAU - Maupome, Gerardo
AU  - Maupome G
FAU - Pelcastre-Villafuerte, Blanca
AU  - Pelcastre-Villafuerte B
FAU - Avila-Burgos, Leticia
AU  - Avila-Burgos L
FAU - Vallejos-Sanchez, Ana Alicia
AU  - Vallejos-Sanchez AA
FAU - Casanova-Rosado, Alejandro Jose
AU  - Casanova-Rosado AJ
LA  - spa
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Desigualdades socioeconomicas en salud bucal: caries dental en ninos de seis a 12 
      anos de edad.
PL  - Mexico
TA  - Rev Invest Clin
JT  - Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la 
      Nutricion
JID - 9421552
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Dental Caries/*epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mexico/epidemiology
MH  - *Oral Health
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2006/12/07 09:00
MHDA- 2007/01/11 09:00
CRDT- 2006/12/07 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/07 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/01/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/07 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rev Invest Clin. 2006 Jul-Aug;58(4):296-304.