Effect of oral hygiene training to Anganwadi workers on improving oral hygiene of preschool children attending Anganwadi centers in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat
Keywords:
Early childhood caries, Debris index, Oral hygiene indexAbstract
Early childhood caries (ECC) is characterized as a public health problem globally which can lead to pain and infection necessitating hospitalized for the extraction of teeth and untreated ECC have an impact on general health and quality of life of infant or toddlers.
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