Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 55, Issue 7 , Pages 535-540 , July 2010

Dental caries prevalence of medieval Korean people

  • Sun Sook Han

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • Dept of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • ,
  • Kyung-won Baek

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Dentisty, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju National University College of Medicine, Jeju-do 690-716, South Korea
    • ,
  • Myung Ho Shin

      Affiliations

    • Dept of History, Pukyung National University, Pusan 608-737, South Korea
    • ,
  • Jaehyup Kim

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
    • ,
  • Chang Seok Oh

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • Lab of Anthropology and Paleopathology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • ,
  • Sang Jun Lee

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • Lab of Anthropology and Paleopathology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • ,
  • Dong Hoon Shin

      Affiliations

    • Dept of Anatomy, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • Lab of Anthropology and Paleopathology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28, Yongon-dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, South Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Tel.: +82 2 740 8203; fax: +82 2 754 9528.

,Accepted 9 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2010.04.004

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 55, Issue 7 , Pages 535-540 , July 2010

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