Distribution of caries in 12-year-old children in Sweden. Social and oral health related behavioural patterns

Community Dental Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 160-165

  Flinck, A ^b   Källestål, Carina ^a   Holm, A K ^b   Allebeck, P ^b   Wall, S ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Dental caries; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, BITEWING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 0033182614     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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