On the symmetry of periodontal disease

Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 741-745

  Mombelli, Andrea ^a   Meier, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bleeding on probing; Microbiology; Periodontitis; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; FEMALE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL PLAQUE INDEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GINGIVAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035433939     PISSN: 03036979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-051X.2001.280804.x     Document Type: Article

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