Dental Caries Experience Amongst 3-15 Year Old Children with Heart Disease Attending Paediatric Cardiology Clinics in Nairobi Kenya
Author:
- Gladys OpinyaGOGladys Opinya
Open Access
- 21 February 2018
- journal article
- Published by Lupine Publishers LLC in Modern Approaches in Dentistry and Oral Health Care
- Vol. 1 (3) , 001-008
Abstract
Heart diseases can be congenital or acquired [1]. Congenital heart defects can be due to an aberrant embryonic development of a normal structure with failure to progressKeywords
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