Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics

• Main Authors: Maria do Carmo Machado Guimarães (Author), Valéria Martins de Araújo (Author), Márcia Raquel Avena (Author), Daniel Rocha da Silva Duarte (Author), Francisco Valter Freitas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of alveolar bone loss (BL) in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics in Brasília, Brazil. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research included 7,436 sites present in 885 radiographs from 450 children. The BL preval...