School-based intervention to promote preadolescents' gingival health: A community trial

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-526

  Saied Moallemi, Z ^a,b   Virtanen, J I ^a   Vehkalahti, M M ^a   Tehranchi, A ^b   Murtomaa, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Community based trial; Oral health promotion; Oral hygiene; Random allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PARENT; PERIODONTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

CHILD; DENTAL PLAQUE; FEMALE; GINGIVAL DISEASES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; PARENTS; PERIODONTAL INDEX; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 73149090986     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2009.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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