Self-perceived need for dental treatment and related factors. A cross-sectional population-based study

Abstract This study compared adolescents’ self-perceived need for orthodontic treatment with the normative need for such treatment and investigated associations between socioeconomic and demographic variables and self-perceptions of dental malocclusion. This cross-sectional study involved 1015 schoo...

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Main Authors: Luciana Freitas Gomes e SILVA, Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca THOMAZ, Heloiza Viana FREITAS, Cecília Cláudia Costa RIBEIRO, Alex Luiz Pozzobon PEREIRA, Cláudia Maria Coelho ALVES
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica 2016-01-01
Series:Brazilian Oral Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-83242016000100259&lng=en&tlng=en