Do schools put children's oral health at risk owing to lack of a health-promoting policy?

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Published in Scand J Public Health on July 13, 2012

Authors

Jaakko Anttila1, Rami Kankaanpää, Mimmi Tolvanen, Salla Saranpää, Anne Hiiri, Satu Lahti

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Dentistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. anttilja@mail.student.oulu.fi

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