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Table 1 Studies on the relationship between obesity and traumatic dental injuries (TDIs)

From: Traumatic dental injuries among 12-year-old Jordanian schoolchildren: an investigation on obesity and other risk factors

Author

Country

N

Ages in years

Conclusions

Petti et al. [3]

Italy

938

6-11

- Obesity significantly increased the risk of TDIs. One-third of obese children was affected vs. only one fifth of other subjects.

Nicolau et al. [4]

Brazil

652

13

- Being from a non-nuclear family, overweight and a boy increased the risk of having a TDI.

- Overweight children were 1.93 times more likely to have dental injuries than those who were not overweight

Granville-Garcia et al. [5]

Brazil

2651

1-5

-Overweight/obese children had 2.5 times more trauma than non-overweight/obese ones

Soriano et al. [6]

Brazil

1046

12

- Obese subjects sustained more TDIs than non-obese subjects. However, it was concluded that the presence of obesity was not associated to TDIs in adolescents from Recife, Brazil.

Ărtun and Al-Azemi [7]

Kuwait

1583

13-14

- No difference was detected in TDIs rate among the subjects in the three BMI categories

Damé-Teixeira et al. [8]

Brazil

1528

12

- No significant association was found between BMI and obesity.