An overview of the epidemiology of periodontal diseases in Latin America Visão geral da epidemiologia das doenças periodontais na América Latina

• מחבר ראשי: Rui Vicente Oppermann (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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The aim of the present review was to identify the presence of periodontal diseases and the relative importance of known risk factors in Latin American countries. The retrieved data are sparse and inconsistent, lacking information for the majority of the countries. Gingivitis is ubiquitous in the reg...