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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Oct 1985

Occluso-Cranial Correlates of Attrition in a Preliterate Population
A cross-sectional study

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Page Range: 329 – 335
DOI: 10.1043/0003-3219(1985)055<0329:OCOAIA>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Evaluation of dental casts of 202 living Lengua Indians from Paraguay finds progressive reduction in overjet with age, but no Class III or indication of altered relationship of mandible to cranial base.

Keywords: AGE; ATTRITION; OCCLUSION
Copyright: Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists

Contributor Notes

Julius Kieser holds B.Sc. and B.D.S. degrees from the Witwatersrand University, where he is attached to the Department of Orthodontics

Hennie Groeneveld Holds a D.Sc. from the University of Pretoria, where he is Professor of Statistics

Charles Preston is Professor and Head, Department of Orthodontics, at the Witwatersrand University and holds B.D.S. and M. Dent. degrees from the same institution

Steven Flax is a postgraduate student in the Orthodontics Department, Witwatersrand University, and holds a B.D.S. degree

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