Caries prevalence and treatment needs of 7- to 10-year-old schoolchildren in southwestern Germany

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 348-351

  Zerfowski, Martin ^a,c   Koch, Martin Jean ^a   Niekusch, Uwe ^b   Stachle, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Heidelberg Regional Health Authority   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Epidemiology; Treatment needs

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SUBURBAN HEALTH; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS; URBAN HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031254141     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1997.tb00953.x     Document Type: Article

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