Dental caries and related factors in 88- and 92-year-olds: Cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 282-291

  Lundgren, Margit ^a   Emilson, Claes Göran ^a   Österberg, Tor ^a   Steen, Gunilla ^a   Birkhed, Dowen ^a   Steen, Bertil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Caries incidence; Functional capacity; Gerodontology; Lactobacilli; Mutans streptococci

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SECRETION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; SWEDEN; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BUFFERS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOBACILLUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOUTH; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; ROOT CARIES; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; SWEDEN; TOOTH LOSS;

EID: 0031253395     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016359709114965     Document Type: Article

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