Caries prevalence of 11.5 year-olds between 1989 and 2001 in a province of North-Eastern Greece

Community Dental Health

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 140-146

  Demertzi, A ^a   Topitsoglou, Vassiliki ^b,c   Muronidis, S ^c  

^a Public Health Center   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Caries prevalence; Children; Fissure sealants; Poisson distribution public health center

Indexed keywords

FISSURE SEALANT;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PIT AND FISSURE SEALANTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33748709635     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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