The oral health of older people: General dental practitioners' beliefs and treatment experience

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-7

  Antoun, Joseph S ^a   Adsett, Luke A ^a   Goldsmith, Samuel M ^a   Thomson, W Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Dental care; Dentists; Elderly; Older people

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; DENTIST; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; PERIODONTAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTISTS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; NEW ZEALAND; ORAL HEALTH; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL; ROOT CARIES;

EID: 41549087912     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2008.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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