Effect of 5% fluoride varnish application on caries among school children in rural Brazil: A randomized controlled trial

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-276

  Arruda, Airton O ^a   Senthamarai Kannan, Raghavendra ^a   Inglehart, Marita R ^a   Rezende, Cristiane T ^b   Sohn, Woosung ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Public Health   (Brazil)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; dental caries; fluoride varnishes; permanent dentition; randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ANTICARIES AGENT; FLUORIDE SODIUM; FLUORIDE VARNISH;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH HYGIENE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CARIOSTATIC AGENTS; CHILD; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLUORIDES, TOPICAL; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL HYGIENE; RURAL POPULATION; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

EID: 84860368082     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2011.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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