socioeconomic variables with dental emergence patterns. DESIGN: A sample of 359
children belonging to a birth cohort of over 5000 children born in 1993 in Pelotas (Brazil)
was studied in 1998–1999. Previously trained observers collected birthweight, head
circumference at birth, birth height, gestational age, smoking during pregnancy, child's sex
and skin colour, height by age at 6 months of age, caries experience in the deciduous teeth …