Oral health status among low-income people admitted to Osaka socio-medical center in Japan

International Dental Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-102

  Fukuda, Hideki ^a,b   Kuroda, Kenji ^a   Ohsaka, Takako ^a   Takatorige, Toshio ^a   Nakura, Ikuko ^a   Saito, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a Graduate School or Biomedical Sciences ^*

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deprived community; Low income people; Oral health

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349147664     PISSN: 00206539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1922/IDJ-2031Fukuda07     Document Type: Article

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