Ratilal Lalloo|Neil Myburgh|Mh Hobdell
Dental caries, socio-economic development and national oral health policies
relationship populations level socioeconomic development dental caries often assumed proxy measures sugar consumption used reflect study tests hypothesis relationship dental caries level socioeconomic development using recent international data goes explore implications relationship development national oral health policies dental caries data obtained global oral epidemiology data bank period 19811996 socioeconomic data obtained united nations development programme undp countries ranked according human development index hdi gnp study confirms existence relationship dental caries development caries good proxy measure socioeconomic development countries throes socioeconomic transition highest dmft scores