Prevalence of caries in urban Australian aborigines aged 1-3.5 years

Pediatric Dentistry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Seow, W Kim ^a   Amaratunge, A ^b   Sim, R ^a   Wan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Aboriginal Islander Comm Hlth Ctr

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SALIVA; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; URBAN POPULATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; DMF INDEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033087513     PISSN: 01641263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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