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Relationship between the state of tongue hygiene and the number of residual teeth in convalescent-ward inpatients, cross- sectional study

BACKGROUND: The changed disease landscape in Japan because of an increasing aging population has contributed to an increase in convalescent inpatients, warranting important considerations of their oral care needs. However, information on the oral state of these inpatients is scarce. We evaluated the...

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Autores principales: Hayashi, Kanako, Izumi, Maya, Isobe, Ayaka, Mastuda, Yuhei, Akifusa, Sumio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6685273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31387551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-019-0869-3