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Brazil Workshop, July 5 - 7 2023

Aims: (i) to estimate the total effect of breastfeeding (BF) on Early Childhood Caries (ECC) by assessing the natural direct effect (NDE), as well as the natural indirect effect (NIE) mediated by early sugar intake, (ii) to build a scale that determines the period from which BF exposure shifts from protection to risk for early childhood caries, and (iii) to assess whether exposure to fluoride can attenuate the effect of prolonged BF on ECC.

Local team:

Marly Augusto Cardoso (MINA-Brazil Cohort Study)

Alicia Matijasevich (MINA-Brazil Cohort Study)

Emanuella Pinheiro (MINA-Brazil Cohort Study)

Carlos Alberto Feldens (Sao Leopoldo Cohort Study and Porto Alegre Birth Cohort Study)

Elisa Coelho (Sao Leopoldo Cohort Study and Porto Alegre Birth Cohort Study)

Marco Britto Correa (2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort)

Erika Fonseca Thomaz (BRISA Cohort Study)

GLOBICS team:

Karen G Peres (GLOBICS Consortium, National Dental Research Institute Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)

Gustavo G Nascimento (GLOBICS Consortium, National Dental Research Institute Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)