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Material in the Dental Caries, Periodontal Disease, and Oral Cancer portions of this program was obtained from the following sources:

1999 International Workshop for a Classification of Periodontal Diseases and Conditions. Ann Periodontol, 1999;(4)1.

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Ismail AI, Lewis DW. Periodic health examination, 1993 update: 3. Periodontal diseases: classification, diagnosis, risk factors and prevention. Can Med Assoc J 1993;1409-1422.

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National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement. Diagnosis and management of dental caries throughout life, March 26-28, 2001.

Orban BJ. Orban’s Oral Histology and Embryology. Mosby, St. Louis, Missouri, 11th edition, 1991.

Old Dominion University Oral Cancer self-examination. Retrieved from World Wide Web: web.odu.edu/webroot/orgs/HS/dental.nsf/pages/oral.

Prout MN, Sidari JN, Witzburg RA, Grillone GA, Vaughan CW. Head and neck cancer screening among 4611 tobacco users older than forty years. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1997;116:201-8.

Scully C, Porter S. Oral Cancer. Br Med J 2000;321:97-100.

Scully CM, Porter S. Swellings and red, white and pigmented lesions. Br Med J 2000;321:225-228.

Thylstrup A, Fejerskov O. Textbook of clinical cariology. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral health in America: a report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, 2000.