Multifactorial modelling for caries prediction in Jordanian university students

Community Dental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-101

  Sayegh, Abla ^a   Shehabi, Asem ^a   Hilow, Hisham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Dental plaque; Dietary habits; Lactobacilli; Mutans streptococci; Prediction models; Salivary buffer capacity; Salivary flow rate

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DENTAL CARIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JORDAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STUDENT; SUGAR INTAKE; TOOTH PLAQUE; UNIVERSITY;

BUFFERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DIETARY SUCROSE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; JORDAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORAL HYGIENE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0031160098     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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