Children's Oral Health and Academic Performance: Evidence of a Persisting Relationship Over the Last Decade in the United States.

Affiliation

Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA. Electronic address: [Email]

Abstract

To assess the association between children's oral health and academic performance using the most recent US national data, a decade after the last assessment using similar previous data.

Keywords

academic achievement,dental health,school performance,