A comparison of DALYs for periodontal disease in China between 1990 and 2013: insights from the 2013 global burden of disease study

• Main Authors: Qi Zhang (Author), Zhixin Li (Author), Chunxiao Wang (Author), Yunning Liu (Author), Yang Yang (Author), Scottie Bussell (Author), Maigeng Zhou (Author), Linhong Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background China has undergone a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition with fast ecomonic development since the 1980s. Oral health is becoming a major public health problem as the prevalence of non-communicable diseases has greatly increased. Periodontal disease (PD) and caries a...