Early childhood caries in Anguilla, British West Indies

General Dentistry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 42-47

  Adewakun, Adenike A ^a,b   Beltran Aguilar, Eugenio D ^c  

^a Oral Hlth Care and Res Consulting   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOOTH; AGE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; WEST INDIES;

EID: 2142705099     PISSN: 03636771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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