Health care costs, including oral health care, are relevant and tend to increase, while funding sources are limited. In Brazil, economic assessments in health, especially in the area of oral health, are still incipient and little incorporated into management practices. The aim of this study was to calculate the investment needed to implement an Oral Health Teams (OHT) in the state of Minas Gerais. The methodolo...
The aim of this study was to identify variables associated with early childhood caries (ECC) in 5-year old Brazilian children to allow their monitoring at both regional and national levels. It is a population-based cross-sectional study with epidemiological and socioeconomic data of 7.217 children included in the National Oral Health Survey (SBBrasil 2010). The dependent variable was untreated caries (component...