Oral health status of 12-year-old school children in Khartoum state, the Sudan; A school-based survey

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nurelhuda, Nazik Mostafa ^a   Trovik, Tordis Agnete ^a   Ali, Raouf Wahab ^b   Ahmed, Mutaz Faisal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b University of Science and Technology   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 68149083138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-9-15     Document Type: Article

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