Evaluation of the Dental Health of the Young Adult Male Population in Turkey From: Military Medicine | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Ceylan, Sà ¼ leyman; Aà § ikel, Cengiz Han; Okà § u, Kemal Murat; Kilià § , Selim; Et al | Copyright Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Nov 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of dental caries in military recruits and to assess the relation of dental caries with socioeconomic and demographic factors, and sugar consumption behavior, and to generalize the findings for the young adult male population to draw a picture of dental health status of this population segment in Turkey. In this cross-sectional study conducted between August and October 2000 in a military basic training center in Turkey, 2,766 male recruits of the a...