Publications by authors named "Carlos Heitor C Moreira"
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- A study aimed to determine if factors linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affect how often individuals experience dental cavities.
- It involved parents of ASD individuals over 4 years old answering questions about their child's behavior and support needs, and the researchers assessed dental health and behavior during dental visits.
- Results showed that higher dental-caries prevalence (42.9%) was connected to less frequent tooth brushing, higher support needs, and poor mealtime and dental care behavior, emphasizing the need for better oral care strategies for this group.
Purpose: Socioeconomic inequalities are recognized as a major problem with people in low socioeconomic groups having worse subjective oral health outcomes, including oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). However, only a few longitudinal studies assessed the impact of contextual and individual socioeconomic determinants in adolescents' OHRQoL. We estimate the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on adolescents' OHRQoL over a 2-year period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPathways of socioeconomic inequalities in gingival bleeding among adolescents.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
April 2019
Objectives: To explore the pathways through which the socioeconomic inequalities may influence gingival bleeding in adolescents, assessing the direct and indirect effects of material and psychosocial variables.
Methods: This cohort study followed a multistage, random sample of 1134 12-year-old adolescents from 20 public schools of Santa Maria, a city in southern Brazil. The percentage of teeth with gingival bleeding was recorded according to the Community Periodontal Index criteria (scored as healthy or bleeding) at baseline and at 2-year follow-up.
Objectives: The aim of this case-control study was to evaluate the association between periodontitis and breast cancer in a sample of adult Brazilian women.
Methods: This was a hospital-based study, which included 67 cases and 134 controls (1:2). Women were selected consecutively between April, 2013 and June, 2015 among those attending the Department of Gynecology at the University Hospital of Santa Maria.
Objective: This randomized controlled clinical trial was carried out to assess the effect of comprehensive nonsurgical periodontal treatment and strict plaque control performed during pregnancy on the reduction of preterm and/or low birth weight rates (PTLBW).
Material And Methods: Three hundred and three women were randomly allocated to receive periodontal treatment either during pregnancy (n = 147, test group) or after delivery (n = 156, control group). During pregnancy, the control group received only one session of supragingival scaling and oral hygiene instruction.