Water fluoridation and dental caries in 5- and 12-year-old children from Canterbury and Wellington

New Zealand Dental Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-15

  Lee, Martin ^a   Dennison, Peter J ^b  

^a School and Community Dental Service   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH; FLUORIDATION; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLUORIDATION; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 3442898164     PISSN: 00288047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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