Assistive technologies for improving the oral hygiene of leprosy patients residing in a former leprosy colony in Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Raquel Conceição Ferreira; Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro; Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira; Aline Araujo Sampaio; Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira; Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas; Rafaella Mendes de Jesus; Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200503

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Assistive technologies for improving the oral hygiene of leprosy patients residing in a former leprosy colony in Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Raquel Conceição Ferreira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-9345

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Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Casa de Saúde Santa Isabel, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais, Betim, Brazil
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Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fabivfer@yahoo.com.br

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Aline Araujo Sampaio ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Casa de Saúde Santa Isabel, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais, Betim, Brazil
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Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Rafaella Mendes de Jesus ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Contributed equally to this work with: Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro, Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira, Aline Araujo Sampaio, Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira, Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas, Rafaella Mendes de Jesus, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Assistive technologies for improving the oral hygiene of leprosy patients residing in a former leprosy colony in Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Raquel Conceição Ferreira,
Marco Tulio de Freitas Ribeiro,
Fabiana Vargas-Ferreira,
Aline Araujo Sampaio,
Ana Cristina Marinho Pereira,
Andrea Maria Duarte Vargas,
Rafaella Mendes de Jesus,
Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

Published: July 25, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200503

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