Fit for Purpose? The Suitability of Oral Health Outcome Measures to Inform Policy

Overview

Journal JDR Clin Trans Res

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Dentistry

Date 2023 Aug 9

PMID 37554046

Authors

T M Nguyen

H Rogers

G D Taylor

U Tonmukayakul

C Lin

M Hall

H Calache

C Vernazza

Affiliations

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Abstract

Oral health research and program evaluation should consider alternative outcome measures for population oral health other than the DMFT index.

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