Preventive dental care and unmet dental needs among low-income children.
Objectives. We examined the ways in which levels of preventive dental care and unmet dental needs varied among subgroups of low-income children.Methods. Data were drawn from the 2002 National Survey of America's Families. We conducted bivariate and multivariate analyses, including logistic regressio...
| Published in: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 95; no. 8; pp. 1360 - 1367 |
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Aug2005
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