A multi-country comparison of caries-associated microflora in demographically diverse children

Community Dental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2004, Pages 96-101

  Beighton, David ^a   Brailsford, Susan ^a   Samaranayake, Lakshman P ^b   Brown, John P ^c   Feng, Xi Ping ^d   Grant Mills, Donna ^e   Harris, Rebecca ^f   Lo, Edward C M ^b   Naidoo, Sudeshni ^g   Ramos Gomez, Francisco ^h   Teo, Choo Soo ⁱ   Burnside, Girvan ^f   Pine, Cynthia M ^f  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^g STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Caries associated microflora; Plaque; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STREPTOCOCCUS; TOOTH FLORA; TOOTH PLAQUE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

SUGAR;

CANDY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; ORAL HYGIENE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 2342486704     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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