Self-rated oral health and associated factors in Brazilian elders

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 348-359

  Pattussi, Marcos Pascoal ^a   Peres, Karen Glazer ^b   Boing, Antonio Fernando ^b,c   Peres, Marco Aurélio ^b   Da Costa, Juvenal Soares Dias ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

aged; dental health surveys; elderly; oral health; risk factors; self concept; self perception

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; EDENTULOUSNESS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MASTICATION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; TOOTH PAIN; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

AGED; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PROSTHESIS; DMF INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCOME; JAW, EDENTULOUS; JAW, EDENTULOUS, PARTIALLY; MALE; MASTICATION; ORAL HEALTH; PERIODONTAL ATTACHMENT LOSS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TOOTHACHE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 77954445606     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2010.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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