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

• Autor principal: Rui Vicente Oppermann (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...