Oral health literacy among adult patients seeking dental care

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1199-1208

  Jones, Micheala ^a,b   Lee, Jessica Y ^a   Gary Rozier, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Organon USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental care use; Medical literacy; Oral health knowledge; Oral health literacy; Oral health status; Rapid estimate of adult literacy in dentistry 30; Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748858161     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2007.0344     Document Type: Article

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