Oral health status and practices of 5 and 12 year old indian tribal children

Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-330

  Singh, Abhinav ^a   Bharathi, M P ^a   Sequeira, 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

Adivasi; Dental caries; Koragas; Oral health status; Tribal children

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959463504     PISSN: 10534628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.35.3.c8063171438k4362     Document Type: Article

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