“…25 The reflexivity among researchers from different areas enriched the analytical attention on the subjectivity of this research, determining the lens through which the researchers looked to understand the participants' experiences and social meanings. In this sense, the results found below are consequences of the dialogue between the different perspectives and challenging assumptions of the researchers, associated to the theoretical framework adopted around the loss of deciduous teeth as a cultural expression of a social group 8,15,25,26,27,28 as well as other theoretical perspectives that guided in the analysis of the first 1,2,3,7,11,12,27,29,30 and the second 13,14,16,21,28,31,32,33,34,35 categories.…”