Factors associated with severe caries among adults in Kuwait

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-99

  Akpata, E S ^a   Al Attar, A ^a   Sharma, P N ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Caries, severe; Kuwait; Saliva; Sugar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KUWAIT; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION; SALIVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; SUGAR INTAKE; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KUWAIT; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL HYGIENE INDEX; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60149096959     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000189805     Document Type: Article

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