Territorial Disparities in Dental Care for Disabled Persons and Oral Health-Related Indicators: A Population-Level Approach in Brazil's Public Healthcare System from 2014 to 2023.

After removing the interval after the COVID-19 pandemic onset (evaluating from 2014 to 2019) in outpatient dental care, it was observed that there was an increasing trend in the incidence of outpatient dental procedures carried out by special care dentistry specialists in the southeastern region ( p -value = 0.016, R 2 = 0.846, APC (%) = 23.0%, 95% CI = 13.5–36.8%) and central–western region ( p -value = 0.029, R 2 = 0.833, APC (%) = 12.2%, 95% CI = 4.2–16.9%).

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