Early childhood caries and infant feeding practice

Community Dental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-242

  Hallett, Kerrod B ^a   O'Rourke, Peter K ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural risk factors; Bottle caries; Dental caries; Early childhood caries; Epidemiology; Infant feeding; Nursing caries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BABY FOOD; BEVERAGE; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; DENTAL CARIES; ETHNIC GROUP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MOUTH HYGIENE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RISK; SINGLE PARENT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BEVERAGES; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HYGIENE; QUEENSLAND; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SOCIAL CLASS; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS;

EID: 0036886074     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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