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Radiological findings in Edentulous Kenyan patients
(1993-03)
Seven hundred and seventy five files of edentulous patients seen at the Department of Dental Surgery, University of Nairobi were scrutinized for the presence or absence of routine radiographs prior to treatment. 180 (23.2%) ...
Oral hygiene habits and dental health awareness of Kenyan children aged 9-15 years in a peri-urban and urban school
(1993-02)
The oral hygiene habits and dental health awareness of 541 Kenyan children from a peri¬urban and urban school and aged 9-15 years, were investigated. 80.2 % of the urban children and 43.1 % of the peri-urban children had ...
Periodontal health status in Africa after decades of development
(1993)
As at independence in the sixties and seventies, few countries in Africa had dental institutions to train oral health personnel. None can claim to have done national dental surveys. By 1979, most countries were reported ...
Is periodontal disease on the increase in Kenya? A review
(1993)
Department of Dental Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya. During a recent scientific meeting held in Botswana (16th-19th October 1991), it was reported that the oral health situation in ...
Inappropriateness of the term "periodontal disease"
(1993)
Traditionally, diseases that affect the periodontium have over the years been referred to as periodontal disease. This implies that these diseases are a single disease entity or only one disease, "periodontal disease," ...