Prevalence of oral lesions among a sample of Bangladeshi medical users aged 40 years and over living in Tower Hamlets, UK

International Dental Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 30-34

  Pearson, Nicola ^a,b   Croucher, Ray ^a   Marcenes, Wagner ^a   O'Farrell, Mary ^a  

^a Tower Hamlets Healthcare NHS Trust ^*

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladeshi; Oral health; Oral lesions; Paan; Tobacco usage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BETEL NUT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEUKOPLAKIA; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PLANT; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMATITIS; TOBACCO; TOOTH PERIAPICAL DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARECA; BANGLADESH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; PERIAPICAL ABSCESS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STOMATITIS, DENTURE; TOBACCO;

EID: 0035259285     PISSN: 00206539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1875-595X.2001.tb00814.x     Document Type: Article

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