An exploratory trial implementing a community-based child oral health promotion intervention for Australian families from refugee and migrant backgrounds: a protocol paper for Teeth Tales (original) (raw)
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Teeth Tales: a community-based child oral health promotion trial with migrant families in Australia
BMJ open, 2015
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Community‐based, population level interventions for promoting child oral health
The Cochrane Library, 2012
This is a reprint of a Cochrane protocol, prepared and maintained by The Cochrane Collaboration and published in The Cochrane Library 2012, Issue 5 http://www.thecochranelibrary.com ... Community-based, population level interventions for promoting child oral health (Protocol) Copyright © 2012 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ... Community-based, population level interventions for promoting child oral health (Protocol) Copyright © 2012 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Impact of socioeconomic and clinical factors on child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2010
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