Prevalence of tongue lesions among Turkish schoolchildren

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1962-1967

  Ugar Cankal, Dilek ^a,b   Denizci, Senem ^a   Hocaoglu, Turgay ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOGLOSSIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOSSITIS; HUMAN; INCOME; LINGUAL THYROID; MACROGLOSSIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SOCIAL STATUS; TONGUE DISEASE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOSSITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STUDENTS; TONGUE; TONGUE DISEASES; TONGUE, FISSURED; TONGUE, HAIRY; TURKEY;

EID: 31844440440     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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