DENTAL SURVEY IN NIGERIA PART 2 BITING FORCE OF NIGERIAN

Yoshiaki ONO; Kinziro KUBOTA; Shogoro OKADA; Minoru NAKATA; Masatoshi OHNISHI; Yasuhisa KAMEDA; T. Adesanya Ige GRILLO; N. O. HOLLIST; S. O. JOHNSON

doi:10.11480/btmd.320202

Yoshiaki ONO, Kinziro KUBOTA, Shogoro OKADA, Minoru NAKATA, Masatoshi OHNISHI, Yasuhisa KAMEDA, T. Adesanya Ige GRILLO, N. O. HOLLIST, S. O. JOHNSON

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Keywords: Biting force, dental epidemiological survey, Nigerian and Japanese

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

1985 Volume 32 Issue 2 Pages 41-48

DOI https://doi.org/10.11480/btmd.320202

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Abstract

The biting force of 855 Nigerian children and adults from the age of 3 to 60 was recorded m the Joint Dental Epidemiological Survey in Nigeria in 1981. The biting force of the Nigerian rural group (245 males and 178 females) was significantly greater than those of the Nigerian urban group (227 males and 203 females) and the Japanese males and females.

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