Review Analysis & Evaluation
Dental Caries Remains a Significant Public Health Problem for South American Indigenous People

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Dental caries in South American Indigenous people: A systematic review. Soares GH, Pereira NF, Gabriela M, Biazevic H, Braga MM, Michel-Crosato E. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 2019;47(2):142-52.

Source of Funding

Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Type of Study/Design

Systematic review with meta-analysis.

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Selection Criteria

A systematic review of the literature, with meta-analysis, was conducted up to March 2018 throughout the following electronic databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, SCOPUS, SciELO, and LILACS. Gray literature was also included. The searching strategy included three blocks of terms involving the outcome, the population, and the locations. The selection of the studies was developed by two authors. First, the authors evaluated the title and the abstract, then they assessed the full text, and finally the

Commentary and Analysis

Despite all the efforts addressed to prevent and control dental caries around the world, this disease remains a public health issue.1 This phenomenon is especially noted among minority groups, such as the Indigenous people, who have been historically deprived of basic human rights.2,3

These groups experience vast inequalities in oral health due to a complex network of social determinants that include poverty, social exclusion, government assimilation policies, cultural annihilation, racism, and

Alex Júnio Silva da Cruz, DDS, Graduate Programme in Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha, CEP 31270-800, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, [email protected]

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Alex Júnio Silva da Cruz, DDS, Graduate Programme in Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha, CEP 31270-800, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, [email protected]

Johana Alejandra Moreno-Drada, DDS, MPH, Graduate Programme in Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha, CEP 31270-800, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, [email protected]

Jacqueline Silva Santos, DDS, MPH, Graduate Programme in Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha, CEP 31270-800, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, [email protected]

Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimaraes de Abreu, DDS, MPH, PhD, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627 – Pampulha, CEP 31270-800, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, [email protected]

How severe are dental caries among Indigenous populations in South America?

The authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

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