Caesarean delivery and early childhood caries: Estimation with marginal structural models in Brazilian pre-schoolers.

Lorena Lúcia Costa LadeiraSarah Pereira MartinsCayara Mattos CostaElizabeth Lima CostaRubenice Amaral da SilvaFabian Calixto FraizCecília Claudia Costa Ribeiro

Published in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2021)

The apparent association between caesarean section and ECC severity seems spurious, as it did not persist after employing a superior approach to estimating causality.

Keyphrases

diffusion weighted imaging
oral health
adverse drug
emergency department
computed tomography
magnetic resonance
electronic health record
drug induced