Oral health survey of 5-12-year-old children of National Guard employees in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-45

  Al Banyan, R A ^a   Echeverri, E A ^a   Narendran, S ^a   Keene, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GINGIVITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH PLAQUE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ARABS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ORAL HYGIENE INDEX; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAUDI ARABIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 0034158439     PISSN: 09607439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-263x.2000.00166.x     Document Type: Review

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