Dental caries in persons over the age of 80 living in Kungsholmen, Sweden: Findings from the KEOHS Project

Community Dental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 262-267

  Morse, Douglas E ^a   Holm Pedersen, Poul ^b   Holm Pedersen, Jytte ^c   Katz, Ralph V ^a   Viitanen, Matti ^c   Von Strauss, Eva ^c   Winblad, Bengt ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Dental health surveys; Gerodontology; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; EDENTULOUSNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE; ROOT CARIES; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN; TOOTH LOSS;

EID: 0036885809     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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