Oral health and hygiene among persons with severe mental illness

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1402-

  Flammer, Erich ^a   Breier, Andrea ^a   Steinert, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL HEALTH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOUTH HYGIENE; PERIODONTITIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; TOOTH BRUSHING; TOOTH PAIN;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL HEALTH; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350076098     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.60.10.1402     Document Type: Letter

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