An assessment of teenagers' perceptions of dental fluorosis using digital simulation and web-based testing

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 298-306

  Edwards, Maura ^a   Macpherson, Lorna M D ^a   Simmons, David R ^b   Gilmour, W Harper ^b   Stephen, Kenneth W ^a  

^a GLASGOW DENTAL HOSPITAL AND SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Computer simulation; Dental fluorosis; Perception; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY, DENTAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 23944510278     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2005.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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