Oral health status of two 12-year-old socially disadvantaged groups in South India: A comparative study

Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 03-07

  Singh, Abhinav ^a   Sequiera, Peter ^b   Acharya, Shashidhar ^c   Bhat, Meghashyam ^c  

^a PEOPLE S COLLEGE OF DENTAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences   (India)

^c MANIPAL COLLEGE OF DENTAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Dental care for children; Oral health; Social indicators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERIODONTICS; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; TOOTH DISEASE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PERIODONTAL INDEX; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 79958269521     PISSN: 16021622     EISSN: 17579996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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