Overestimation of Early Childhood Caries Using the dmfs Index.

Kelsey H Jordan, Gerald McGwin, Noel K Childers

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Article in Pediatric dentistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Kelsey H JordanDr. Jordan is a postdoctoral scholar, Division of Population Sciences, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA;, Email: Kelsey.Jordan@osumc.edu.

Gerald McGwinDr. McGwin is a pro- fessor and vice chair, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health.

Noel K ChildersDr. Childers is professor emeritus, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, both at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ala., USA.

Funding

Epidemiology of Dental Caries and Immunity in ChildrenR01DE016684 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI CHILDERS, NOEL K · 2006 to 2013

$6.8M

BEVERAGE CONSUMPTION AND DENTAL CARIES [AMONGST YOUNG CHILDREN WITH HIGH CARIES RISK]F31DE024937 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI JORDAN, KELSEY HARRIS · 2015 to 2016

$72k

NIDCR NIH HHS F31 DE024937NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE016684

6 · The paper itself

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Dental CariesTooth LossChildChild, PreschoolCrownsDMF IndexHumansInfantPrevalenceTooth Extraction

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PMID32522324

PMCPMC7295013

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