Dental care of six-year-old high-caries patients in relation to their cooperation

Community Dental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-175

  Varsio, Sinikka ^a   Vehkalahti, Miira ^b   Murtomaa, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

High caries children; Patient cooperation; Preventive treatment; Public oral health services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FINLAND; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033182434     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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