Predictive tool for estimating the potential effect of water fluoridation on dental caries

Community Dental Health

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-11

  Foster, G R K ^a   Downer, M C ^b,c   Lunt, M ^d   Aggarwal, V ^b   Tickle, M ^b  

^a Wirral Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caries prediction; Dental caries; Deprivation; Predictive tool; Water fluoridation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FLUORIDATION; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES SUSCEPTIBILITY; DMF INDEX; FLUORIDATION; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 68549127192     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1922/CDH_2352Tickle07     Document Type: Article

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