Application of survival analysis to carious lesion transitions in intervention trials

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 252-260

  Baelum, Vibeke ^a   Machiulskiene, Vita ^b   Nyvad, Bente ^a   Richards, Alan ^a   Væth, Michael ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Caries; Clinical trial; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; SUGAR; TOOTHPASTE; ANTICARIES AGENT; SWEETENING AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEWING GUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPHYLAXIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TOOTH ERUPTION; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DENTAL CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CHEWING GUM; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LITHUANIA; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEETENING AGENTS; TOOTH REMINERALIZATION; TOOTHPASTE;

EID: 0141906347     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0528.2003.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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