Global aspects of preventive dental care
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Global aspects of preventive dental care
This paper reviews some of the evidence of success for preventive dentistry in the global context and presents some challenges for preventive dentistry in the coming years. Rather than attempting a detailed analysis of individual countries the global view looks at trends and patterns of prevention, care and disease in the context of demographic and other societal changes. In citing examples fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Dental Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0020-6539
DOI: 10.1111/j.1875-595x.2007.tb00158.x