Assessment of the validity and consequences of different methods of expressing the severity of dental fluorosis in a subject

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 148-154

  Rwenyonyi, Charles Mugisha ^a   Birkeland, Jan Magne ^a   Haugejorden, Ola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dental fluorosis; Expressing severity; Mean; Median; Partial recording

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORIDATION; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH DISEASE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOOTH DISEASE; UGANDA; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; DIAGNOSIS, ORAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FLUORIDATION; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL HEALTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UGANDA;

EID: 0034252176     PISSN: 00016357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000163500429136     Document Type: Article

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