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SUBMITTER: Russell SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3318049 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of dental research 20100714 10
While parity (number of children) reportedly is related to tooth loss, the relationship between parity and dental caries has not been extensively investigated. We used path analysis to test a theoretical model that specified that parity influences dental caries levels through dental care, psycho- social factors, and dental health damaging behaviors in 2635 women selected from the NHANES III dataset. We found that while increased parity was not associated with a greater level of total caries (DFS ...[more]