Salt fluoridation and dental caries in Jamaica

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-252

  Estupiñán Day, Saskia R ^a   Baez, Ramón ^b   Horowitz, Herschel ^c   Warpeha, Rosalie ^d   Sutherland, Bernard ^e   Thamer, Mae ^f  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Dental Research and Public Health   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health ^*

^e Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

^f Med Technol Pract Patterns Inst   (United States)

Author keywords

Carles; DMFT; Public health dentistry; Salt fluoridation

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; FLUORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAMAICA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODONTICS; SALT INTAKE; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS; JAMAICA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIODONTAL INDEX; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 0037481440     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2001.290402.x     Document Type: Article

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