Variation in caries and treatment experience in 35-44-year-old Lithuanians

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 356-364

  Aleksejuniene, Jolanta ^a   Eriksen, Harald M ^a   Holst, Dorthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adults; Bivariate analysis; Caries; Multiple regression; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0034294812     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2000.028005356.x     Document Type: Article

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