Association between preventive care provided in public dental services and caries prevalence;Associação entre procedimentos preventivos no serviço público de odontologia e a prevalência de cárie dentária

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 830-838

  Celeste, Roger Keller ^a,b   Nadanovsky, Paulo ^a   De Leon, Antonio Ponce ^a  

^a Instituto de Biologia   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Dental health services; Epidemiology; Health services evaluation; Prevention and control; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349017491     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102007000500018     Document Type: Article

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