Neighborhood Contexts and Oral Health Outcomes in a Pediatric Population: An Exploratory Study

Aims: This study aimed to explore the impacts of neighborhood-level socioeconomic contexts on therapeutic and preventative dental quality outcome children under 16 years. Materials Methods: Anonymized billing data 842 patients reporting a university children’s over three years (March 2017–2020) met inclusion criteria. Their access care (OEV-CH-A), topical fluoride application (TFL-CH-A) treatment burden (TRT-CH-A) were determined by alliance (DQA) The oral health variables aggregated at neighborhood level analyzed with Canadian census data. partial postal code (FSA) was chosen as spatial unit maps created visualize differences. Results: individual-level regression models showed significant negative associations between OEV-CH-A (p = 0.027) TFL-CH-A 0.001) cost care. While there no association sociodemographic OEV-CH-A, TRT-CH-A median household income positive percentage non-official first language (English or French) speakers. Conclusion: Initial analysis suggests differences exist in outcomes according variables, even when is similar.