Dental caries experience in a Connecticut Head Start program in 1991 and 1999

Pediatric Dentistry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 309-314

  Douglass, J M ^a   Montero, M J ^b   Thibodeau, E A ^a   Mathieu, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Connecticut; Dental caries; Head Start

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTICUT; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036652937     PISSN: 01641263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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