Early Childhood Dental Caries, Mouth Pain, and Malnutrition in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region Authors and Affiliations
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a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; [email protected] b Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 188 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; [email protected] c University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Drive S., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; [email protected] d Doctor en Odontología General, Quito, Ecuador, [email protected] e Berkeley-San Francisco Joint Medical Program, University of California, 570 University Hall, MC 1190, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; [email protected] * Joint First Authors ** Joint Senior Authors
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Early Childhood Dental Caries, Mouth Pain, and Malnutrition in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region
Malnutrition and dental caries in early childhood remain persistent and intertwined global health challenges, particularly for indigenous and geographically-remote populations. To examine the prevalence and associations between early childhood dental caries, parent-reported mouth pain and malnutrition in the Amazonian region of Ecuador, we conducted a cross-sectional study of the oral health an...
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