Oral health status of preschool children attending Head Start in Maryland, 2000

Pediatric Dentistry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-263

  Vargas, Clemencia M ^a   Monajemy, Nooshin ^a   Khurana, Pooja ^a   Tinanoff, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Head start; Oral health

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOOTH PAIN; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARYLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; TOOTHACHE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036559774     PISSN: 01641263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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