A longitudinal study of caries onset in initially caries-free children and baseline salivary mutans streptococci levels: A Kaplan-Meier survival analysis

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 201-209

  Kopycka Kȩdzierawski, Dorota T ^a   Billings, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Caries onset; Mutans streptococci; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NEW YORK; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942750243     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2004.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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