Risk indicators of coronal and root caries in Greek middle aged adults and senior citizens

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mamai Homata, Eleni ^a   Topitsoglou, Vassiliki ^b   Oulis, Constantine ^a   Margaritis, Vasileios ^a   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronal caries; Middle aged adults; Multivariate analysis; Risk indicators; Root caries; Senior citizens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; DMF INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; ROOT CARIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84862695203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-484     Document Type: Article

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