Positive Parent-Child Interactions and Stimulation Predict Favorable Oral Health-Related Practices.

Background: Health-related outcomes in children can be associated with parental practices.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate if parent-child interactions and stimulation are predictive of oral health-compromising behaviors at the age of 5 years.

Design: This longitudinal study investigated oral health-compromising factors at the age of 5 years as the outcome: sugar intake between meals more than once a day, no dental appointments or appointments only for treatment, unavailability of the mother to brush her child's teeth, and the presence of dental plaque.

Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Foregone Preventive Dental Care for Adults.

Importance: Access to routine dental care prevents advanced dental disease and improves oral and overall health. Identifying individuals at risk of foregoing preventive dental care can direct prevention efforts toward high-risk populations.

Objective: To predict foregone preventive dental care among adults overall and in sociodemographic subgroups and to assess the algorithmic fairness.

Depression and anxiety among the University community during the Covid-19 pandemic: a study in Southern Brazil.

This study aimed to assess the mental health of a University community in South Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted between July-August 2020 through a self-administered questionnaire. All University staff and students were eligible.

Functional dentition and edentulism associated with mortality: A cohort study of older adults in Southern Brazil.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the lack of a functional dentition and edentulism with mortality in a cohort of older adults in a Southern Brazilian city.

Materials And Methods: This is a longitudinal study carried out with community-dwelling older adults (≥60 years old) from Pelotas, Brazil, using data from the baseline (2014) and the first follow-up (2017). Main exposures were functional dentition (20+ teeth present) and edentulism (absence of all teeth), derived from self-reported number of teeth.

Causal inference in dentistry: Time to move forward.

Oral conditions represent a critical public health challenge, and together with descriptive and predictive epidemiology, causal inference has a crucial role in developing and testing preventive oral health interventions. By identifying not just correlations but actual causes of disease, causal inference may quantify the average effect of interventions and guide policies. Although authors are not usually explicit about it, most oral health studies are guided by causal questions.

Early Sugar Introduction Associated with Early Childhood Caries Occurrence.

Consensus has yet to be reached on the impact of early sugar introduction on early childhood dental caries (ECC). This study aimed to evaluate the association between the time of introduction of sugar in the infant's diet and ECC at 48 months, using data from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study. This cohort comprises 4,275 children.

Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years.

Background: The first steps towards gender equity in science are measuring the magnitude of inequity and increasing awareness of the problem.

Objectives: To describe trends in gender disparities in first and last authorship in the most cited dental publications and general dental literature over a 20-year period.

Methods: Articles and bibliometric data were retrieved from the Scopus database for the period 1996 to 2015.

The Mouth as a Site of Compound Injustices: A Structural Intersectionality Approach to the Oral Health of Working-Age US Adults.

Knowledge of and practice around health inequities have been limited by scarce investigations on intersecting forms of structural oppression, including the extent to which their effects are more severe among multiply marginalized groups. We addressed these insufficiencies by adopting a structural intersectionality approach to the study of edentulism (i.e.

How do state-level racism, sexism, and income inequality shape edentulism-related racial inequities in contemporary United States? A structural intersectionality approach to population oral health.

Objective: Research on racial oral health inequities has relied on individual-level data with the premise being that the unequal distribution of dental diseases is an intractable problem. We address these insufficiencies by examining the relationships between structural racism, structural sexism, state-level income inequality, and edentulism-related racial inequities according to a structural intersectionality approach.

Methods: Data were from two sources, the 2010 survey of the U.

Emulating a target trial of intensive nurse home visiting in the policy-relevant population using linked administrative data.

Background: Populations willing to participate in randomized trials may not correspond well to policy-relevant target populations. Evidence of effectiveness that is complementary to randomized trials may be obtained by combining the 'target trial' causal inference framework with whole-of-population linked administrative data.

Methods: We demonstrate this approach in an evaluation of the South Australian Family Home Visiting Program, a nurse home visiting programme targeting socially disadvantaged families.

Social and racial inequity in self-rated oral health in adults in Southern Brazil.

This study aimed to estimate social and racial inequalities in self-rated oral health in adults from the Brazilian birth cohort study. This study belongs to 1982 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study. Data from this study was collected for oral health conditions 31 years old (Oral Health Study).

A multi-country survey on the impact of COVID-19 on dental practice and dentists' feelings in Latin America.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced the routine of healthcare workers. This study investigated the impact of the pandemic on dental practice and dentists' feelings in Latin America.

Methods: A survey was conducted with dentists from 11 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries in September-December 2020.

Where are race-based oral health inequities bound? Protocol for a systematic review on interventions to tackle racial injustice in dental outcomes.

Background: Only three literature reviews have assessed the impact of interventions on the reduction of racial inequities in general health to date; none has drawn from attempts at promoting racial oral health equity. This protocol aims to increase transparency and reduce the potential for bias of an ongoing systematic review conceived to answer the following questions: Are there any interventions to mitigate racial oral health inequities or improve the oral health of racially marginalized groups? If so, how successful have they been at promoting racial oral health equity? How do conclusions of previous reviews change by taking the findings of oral health interventions into account?

Methods: Reviewed studies must deploy interventions to reduce racial gaps or promote the oral health of groups oppressed along ancestral and/or cultural lines. We will analyze randomized clinical trials, natural experiments, pre-post studies, and observational investigations that emulate controlled experiments by assessing interactions between race and potentially health-enhancing interventions.

Temporal trends of women with oral cavity, base of tongue and lip cancers in Brazil: An ecological study covering mortality data from 1980 to 2018.

Objectives: Obtaining robust evidence about the local mortality levels, trends and impact of oral cavity/base of tongue cancers and lip cancer, especially for women, is imperative in the fight against cancer. This descriptive retrospective ecological time-series study explored trends in oral cavity/base of tongue cancers and lip cancer mortality rates for women in Brazil from 1980 to 2018, by geographic region and anatomical location.

Methods: The crude and age-adjusted annual mortality rates were obtained by sex, anatomical location and macro-regions of Brazil.

Is the association between social support and oral health modified by household income? Findings from a national study of adults in Australia.

Objective: To investigate whether the association between social support and oral health outcomes is modified by levels of household income.

Methods: Data were from the National Study of Adults Oral Health (NSAOH 2004-06), a nationally representative study comprising n = 3619 adults in Australia. Effect measure modification (EMM) analysis was adopted to verify whether the association between social support and poor/fair self-rated oral health, lack of a functional dentition (<21 teeth) and low Oral Health Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL; measured using OHIP-14) varies according to levels of income.

The independent and joint contribution of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on oral health indicators.

Objectives: The understanding of how subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) relates to objective socioeconomic status (OSS), and how both conditions act together in oral health outcomes is still unclear. This study aims to test the independent and joint association between OSS and SSS with oral health, to assess the role of socioeconomic status discrepancies, and to evaluate the role of SSS in the association between OSS and oral health.

Methods: Data from 1140 adults from a population-based study in Southern Brazil were used.

Estimated prevalence of dental fear in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To systematically review the literature about: 'What is the global estimated prevalence of dental fear in adults?'.

Data/sources: Inclusion criteria were observational population-based studies reporting the prevalence or raw data of dental fear in adults (>18 years). Five electronic databases (Embase, PubMed, Scopus, Virtual Health Library and Web of Science) were searched without language restrictions up to March 2020.

The impact of gender on scientific writing: An observational study of grant proposals.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether there are differences in the language used in grant applications submitted to a Southern Brazil Research Support Foundation (FAPERGS) according to the gender, career stage, and the number of publications of applicants.

Study Design And Setting: This observational study also evaluated the relationship between gender, career stage, curriculum, and writing characteristics. Summaries of all research proposals in the biomedical field of FAPERGS during the years of 2013 and 2014 were evaluated according to six language patterns (Positive emotions, Negative emotions, Analytic thinking, Clout, Authenticity, and Emotional tone) defined by the LIWC software.

The vicious cycle of dental fear at age 31 in a birth cohort in Southern Brazil.

Objectives: This longitudinal study assessed the prevalence of dental fear in adulthood and the association with socio-economic, behavioural and clinical variables. Also, the existence of a vicious cycle of dental fear was tested.

Methods: A random sample of adults (n = 535) from the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort, Brazil, was selected.

Periodontal disease and preterm birth: Findings from the 2015 Pelotas birth cohort study.

Objectives: To verify the association between periodontal conditions and preterm birth.

Materials And Methods: This study used data from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study, Brazil. Pregnant women expected to give birth in 2015 were interviewed and dentally examined by a trained dentist, with periodontal measures collected in all teeth, six sites per tooth.

Intersectionality, racial discrimination and oral health in Australia.

Background: There is a dearth of studies on the extent to which perceived racial discrimination shapes oral health. Following an intersectional perspective, we estimated the prevalence of perceived racial discrimination in Australia, its association with oral health impairment, and examined whether this association was more severe among low socioeconomic status (SES) groups.

Methods: Data came from the 2013 National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (N = 2798), a population-based study of Australian adults.

Regular use of dental services among university students in southern Brazil.

OBJECTIVE To verify the prevalence and factors associated with regular use of dental services in university students of the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel). METHODS This cross-sectional study interviewed 1,865 students aged 18 years or older, starting bachelor's degrees in 2017, enrolled in the second academic semester of 2017 and in the first of 2018 in classroom courses at UFPel. We considered regular users those who reported regularly going to the dentist with or without perceived dental problems.