Black teeth: Beauty or caries prevention? Practice and beliefs of the Kammu people

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Tayanin, Gisela Ladda ^a   Bratthall, Douglas ^a  

^a MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Betula pendula; Black teeth; Cratoxylum formosum; Croton cascarilloides; Dracontomelon dao; Extract; Kammu; Laos; Mutans streptococci; Soot; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; FLUORIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANACARDIACEAE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRCH; CROTON; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GUTTIFERAE; HUMAN; LAOS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUT; PHYTOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; TEST STRIP; THAILAND; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; WOOD;

ANACARDIACEAE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BETULA; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CLUSIACEAE; CROTON; DENTAL CARIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LAOS; NUTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; REAGENT STRIPS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; THAILAND; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; WOOD;

EID: 33644824937     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2006.00264.x     Document Type: Review

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