Cross-cultural differences in oral impacts on daily performance between Greek and British older adults

Community Dental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 209-213

  Tsakos, Georgios ^a,b   Marcenes, Wagner ^a   Sheiham, Aubrey ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Elderly; Oral impacts; Quality of life; Sociodental indicators

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TOOTH DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TOOTH DISEASES;

EID: 0035747826     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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