Do root lesions tend to develop in the same people who develop coronal lesions?

Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 82-88

  Beck, James D ^a   Drake, Claude W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal caries; Epidemiology; Incidence; Lactobacilli; Old age; Periodontitis; Root caries

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CAUCASIAN; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; GINGIVA DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEGRO; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DMF INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GINGIVAL RECESSION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACTOBACILLUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NORTH CAROLINA; PERIODONTAL ATTACHMENT LOSS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROOT CARIES;

EID: 0031088367     PISSN: 00224006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.1997.tb02478.x     Document Type: Article

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