Relation between Socioeconomic Indicators and Children Dental Caries in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

invasive restoration treatment, emergency dentistry visit, hospitalization, low quality of life (QoL), systemic health problems and in rare cases leads to death,[ 2 3 ] however treatment for dental diseases is costly especially for poor and low income families.[ 4 ] Dental caries prevalence has had a decreasing trend in the past decades both in developing and developed countries, but it has a high prevalence in low socioeconomic families of all these countries.[ 5 6 ] Many studies have been performed in different cities of Iran about the relation between the households’ socioeconomic situation (SES) and children dental caries [ Table 1 ].

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