Influence of the patient's race on the dentist's decision to extract or retain a decayed tooth

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 461-466

  Cabral, Etenildo Dantas ^a,b   Caldas Jr , Arnaldo De França ^a   Cabral, Hilda Azevedo Moreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blacks; Prejudice; Tooth extraction; Treatment decision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; DENTIST-PATIENT RELATIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 33644681777     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2005.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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