Smoking prevalence and its effect on dental health attitudes and behavior among dental students

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-199

  Alomari, Qasem ^a   Barrieshi Nusair, Kefah ^a   Said, Khalid ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Dental health attitudes; Dental health behavior; Dental students; Smoking prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DENTAL HEALTH; DENTAL STUDENT; FEMALE; GINGIVA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JORDAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; TOOTH BRUSHING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STUDENTS, DENTAL;

EID: 33646448131     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092181     Document Type: Article

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