I started this project work in November 2001. After all the laborious work of literature review, data collection, data analysis and text writing, this thesis is completed. I am so appreciative ofall the people who have helped me making this possible. First and foremost, I acknowledge the supervision of Dr. Paul Allison, who is always a source of advice and assistance whenever needed. He dedicated so much time and effort to organize the step-by-step procedures ofthis project, to give valuable advices for each step, and to make sure that all the details have been taken care of. When writing this thesis, he helped to make sure that the text is complete and easy to understand. Even when I was content, he was not, and I am appreciative of his devotion to making this a better writing. The financial support for this project was from Canadian Institute of Health Research. A special thanks to the two dental clinics (dental clinic of Montreal Children's Hospital and orthodontic clinic of Dr. Go) for the permission and help they provided in data collection, and to Jennifer Golfman, who helped with part of the data collecting work. Also I want to thank all the participating children and their parents for taking time to have the short interviews and complete the questionnaires. Last, I thank my parents for their continued support from the other side of the globe. They gave me the strength for going through all this and going on.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.19430 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Zou, Jingyi |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Faculty of Dentistry) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002010130, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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