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Inequalities of caries experience in Nevada youth expressed by DMFT index vs. Significant Caries Index (SiC) over time

BACKGROUND: With the increasingly polarized distribution of dental caries among children and adolescents, the usual DMFT measure has become a less meaningful population descriptor. To re-focus on identifying the high caries prevalence group the Significant Caries Index (SiC) was created. The aims of...

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Autores principales: Ditmyer, Marcia, Dounis, Georgia, Mobley, Connie, Schwarz, Eli
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21466692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-11-12