Dental caries prevalence and risk factors among 12-year old schoolchildren from Baghdad, Iraq: a post-war survey.

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Published in Int Dent J on February 01, 2007

Authors

Nibras A M Ahmed1, Anne N Astrøm, Nils Skaug, Poul Erik Petersen

Author Affiliations

1: University of Oslo, Department of Oral Biology, Norway. nibrasa@odont.uio.no

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