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Prevalence of dental caries in permanent teeth of white and black schoolchildren in Brazil
Author(s) -
Moreira BenHur Wey,
Vieira Sonia
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1977.tb01625.x
Subject(s) - medicine , white (mutation) , dentistry , demography , sociology , gene , biochemistry , chemistry
The authors studied the prevalence of dental caries in white and black schoolchildren of Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The Student t‐test, applied to the coefficient of prevalence of caries, revealed means significantly greater at the 5 % level in whites than in blacks in the following groups: 7 years, both sexes; 8 years, both sexes; 9 years, males; 10 years, both sexes; 11 years, males.