Open AccessInheritance and susceptibility to dental caries: A community-based study
Author(s) -
Sheeba Khan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/jispcd.jispcd_384_19
Subject(s) - logistic regression , medicine , consanguineous marriage , oral hygiene , dentistry , demography , etiology , cross sectional study , population , environmental health , pathology , psychiatry , sociology
Effects of consanguineous marriage on human population are known. However, the inherited susceptibility to dental caries is unfortunately quite limited.