Contribution of changing diagnostic criteria toward reduction of caries between 1971 and 1997 in children attending the same school in Florianopolis, Brazil

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 449-455

  Marcenes, Wagner ^a,b,d   Freysleben, Gloria Ribeiro ^c   De Anselmo Peres, Marco Aurello ^c  

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

^b ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^d Department of Epidemiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decline; Dental caries; DMFT; Epidemiology; Prevalence; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL FISSURES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH LOSS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0035752879     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2001.290606.x     Document Type: Article

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