Dental health of children in an integrated urban development programme for destitute mothers with twins in Addis Ababa.
The Ethiopian Gemini Trust in Addis Ababa is a charitable organisation which cares for mothers who have delivered twins or triplets. A dental preventive programme for the disadvantaged children in the Trust was begun and this paper describes the first objective of the programme, the determination of the levels of dental disease. Caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion and enamel opacities were recorded.
Nunn
J H
JH
Dental School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Welbury
R R
RR
Gordon
P H
PH
Stretton-Downes
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S
Green-Abate
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005002:Ethiopia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D008489:Medical Indigency; D010510:Periodontal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D015995:Prevalence; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics*; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous; D014310:Triplets; D014427:Twins; D014505:Urban Population