Income- and education-based inequalities of edentulism and dental services utilization in Brazil.

Raquel Conceição FerreiraJoão Gabriel Silva Souza Anna Rachel Dos Santos SoaresRenato Vitor VieiraIchiro Kawachi

Published in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2022)

There was a social gradient in the prevalence of edentulism in adults and older adults, and the education-based inequalities in edentulism were lower among adults reporting utilization of dental services in the preceding year.

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