Prevalence of caries and edentulousness among 65-74-year-olds in Europe

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 413-417

  Bourgeois, D ^a   Nihtila, A ^b   Mersel, A ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; EDENTULOUSNESS; EUROPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; EUROPE; HUMANS; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; ORAL HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0031754407     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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