Effect of professional oral health care on the elderly living in nursing homes

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-195

  Adachi, Mieko ^a   Ishihara, Kazuyuki ^b   Abe, Shu ^b   Okuda, Katsuji ^b   Ishikawa, Tatsuya ^b  

^a Fuchu Rehabilitation Center   (Japan)

^b TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANETHIOL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL ASSISTANT; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; HALITOSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING HOME; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STATISTICS; TOOTH BRUSHING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL HYGIENISTS; DENTAL SCALING; FEMALE; FEVER; HALITOSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 0036675731     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.123493     Document Type: Article

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