Tropical Oral Health

• Oral health poses a major health burden for many countries, and some forms of oral disease are specific to tropical countries. • Oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases and share risk factors with many other non-communicable diseases. • Some 90% of the world's population i...

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Autores principales: Bedi, Raman, Scully, Crispian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150103/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-7020-5101-2.00074-1
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description • Oral health poses a major health burden for many countries, and some forms of oral disease are specific to tropical countries. • Oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases and share risk factors with many other non-communicable diseases. • Some 90% of the world's population is affected by tooth decay. • A high proportion suffer from periodontal disease. • Oral cancer rates are high among smokers and tobacco users.
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spelling pubmed-71501032020-04-13 Tropical Oral Health Bedi, Raman Scully, Crispian Manson's Tropical Infectious Diseases Article • Oral health poses a major health burden for many countries, and some forms of oral disease are specific to tropical countries. • Oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases and share risk factors with many other non-communicable diseases. • Some 90% of the world's population is affected by tooth decay. • A high proportion suffer from periodontal disease. • Oral cancer rates are high among smokers and tobacco users. 2014 2013-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7150103/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-7020-5101-2.00074-1 Text en Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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