Activity assessment has little impact on caries parameters reduction in epidemiological surveys with preschool children

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-211

  Piovesan, Chaiana ^a   Ardenghi, Thiago M ^b   Guedes, Renata S ^b   Ekstrand, Kim R ^c   Braga, Mariana M ^a   Mendes, Fausto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

activity; dental caries; diagnostic; epidemiology; preschool children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DENTIN; DISEASE COURSE; ENAMEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; TOOTH DISCOLORATION;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL CARIES ACTIVITY TESTS; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTAL FISSURES; DENTIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DMF INDEX; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; TOOTH REMINERALIZATION;

EID: 84876729751     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12004     Document Type: Article

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