Oral health-related conditions in Ecuador: A temporal trend analysis of hospital discharges from 2000–2023

• Verónica Baldeón ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Odontología, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Adriana Hernández ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Odontología, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Sthephany Tapia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Verónica Baldeón, Adriana Hernández, Sthephany Tapia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Escuela de Odontología, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Alejandro Rodriguez

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rorodriguezla@uide.edu.ec

  Affiliation Escuela de Odontología, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1867-0331

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