Obesity and dental caries: systematic review

OBJECTIVE Identifying, through a systematic literature review, evidence of a possible association between obesity and dental caries. METHODS A search of articles published between 2005 and January 2012 was performed in the Medline/PubMed, LILACS and Web of Science databases. The quality of scienti...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Emidio Ribeiro Silva, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Flavio Fernando Demarco, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Marco Aurelio Peres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-08-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102013000600799&lng=en&tlng=en