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

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 prevale...

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Main Authors: Maria do Carmo Machado Guimarães, Valéria Martins de Araújo, Márcia Raquel Avena, Daniel Rocha da Silva Duarte, Francisco Valter Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of São Paulo 2010-06-01
Series:Journal of Applied Oral Science
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-77572010000300016