Caries risk factors in the permanent dentition of Tanzanian children: A cohort study (1997-2003)

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 500-506

  Scheutz, Flemming ^a   Matee, Mecky I ^b   Poulsen, Sven ^a   Frydenberg, Morten ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caries risk factors; Children; Cohort; Malnutrition; Microbiology; Saliva

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SALIVA; SECRETION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TANZANIA;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTITION, PERMANENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TANZANIA;

EID: 36549000815     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2006.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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