Prevalence and causes of fractured permanent incisors in 12-year-old suburban Nigerian schoolchildren

Dental Traumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 314-317

  Adekoya Sofowora, Comfort A ^a   Adesina, Olufemi A ^a   Nasir, Wakeel Olabamiji ^a   Oginni, Adeleke Oke ^a   Ugboko, Vincent I ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTIN; DENTITION; ENAMEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; INJURY; MALE; NIGERIA; POPULATION; STATISTICS; TOOTH FRACTURE;

ACCIDENTS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTIN; DENTITION, PERMANENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCISOR; MALE; NIGERIA; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TOOTH FRACTURES;

EID: 65649116501     PISSN: 16004469     EISSN: 16009657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-9657.2008.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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