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April 21, 2026Revista Brasileira de EpidemiologiaOpen Access

Prevalence of negative self-assessment of oral health and associated factors among adolescents from southeastern Brazil in the 2003 and 2023 Brazil Oral Health surveys

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SNSheyla Omonte NevesGLGiana Zarbato LongoKTKarla Maria Damiano Teixeira

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Overview

Cross-sectional study examines negative oral health self-assessment in adolescents, indicating significant associated factors.

Key Points

  • The study aims to determine how common negative self-assessment of oral health is among adolescents in Southeastern Brazil and the factors that impact this assessment.
  • Cross-sectional analysis of data from the National Oral Health Survey in 2003 and 2023.
  • Included clinical and questionnaire data on 2981 individuals in 2003 and 919 in 2023.
  • Employed Poisson regression for bivariate and multivariate analysis.
  • Negative self-assessment prevalence was 43.9% in 2003 and reduced to 33.4% in 2023.
  • Key associated factors included age, lack of home ownership, government assistance, and need for treatment.
  • Toothache, dental calculus, and past dental visits also significantly affected self-assessment.

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Neves et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e7132bcb99343efc98ce0fhttps://doi.org/10.1590/1980-549720260001.supl.1
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