Early childhood caries and risk factors in rural Puerto Rican children

Journal of Dentistry for Children

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 132-135

  Del Valle, Lydia Lopez ^a   Velazquez Quintana, Yvette ^a   Weinstein, Philip ^b   Domoto, Peter ^b   Leroux, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood caries; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTTLE FEEDING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DENTAL CARIES; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADULT; BOTTLE FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTORS; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION;

EID: 0032014320     PISSN: 15518949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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