Caries risk profiles in two-year-old children from Northern Sweden

Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-221

  Stecksén Blicks, Christina ^a   Holgerson, Pernilla Lif ^a   Twetman, Svante ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Caries risk; Children; Mutans streptococci; Oral hygiene; Sugar

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARIOGENIC DIET; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUGAR INTAKE; SWEDEN; TOOTH BRUSHING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DIET, CARIOGENIC; DIETARY SUCROSE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SWEDEN; TOOTHBRUSHING;

EID: 38449110030     PISSN: 16021622     EISSN: 17579996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3290/j.ohpd.a12533     Document Type: Article

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