Insufficiency of Currently used Dental Indices in Epidemiology
Markku Larmas & Kauko K Mäkinen · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2014
The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies oral diseases in two different ways: officially dental caries (K02) and gingivitis as well periodontal diseases (K.05) are diseases in the digestive system. In epidemiological surveys the so-called DMF-index values (D= decayed or M=...
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10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7139