Caries prevalence and associated predisposing conditions in recently hospitalized elderly persons

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 251-256

  Budtz Jørgensen, Ejvind ^a,b   Mojon, Philippe ^a   Rentsch, Alain ^a   Roehrich, Nicolas ^a   Von Der Muehll, Didier ^a   Baehni, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Section de Médecine Dentaire   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Gerodontology; Hospitalization; Oral hygiene; Root caries

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GINGIVA DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERIODONTICS; PERIODONTITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH PLAQUE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GINGIVAL RECESSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PERIODONTAL POCKET; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROOT CARIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWITZERLAND; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 0030203422     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016359609003533     Document Type: Article

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