Are all the negative studies really negative?

Laser Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 165-174

  Tunér, Jan ^a   Hode, Lars ^b  

^a Dental Practitioner   (Japan)

^b Irradia AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

double blind study; LLLT; meta analysis; treatment parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000545160     PISSN: 08985901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5978/islsm.10.165     Document Type: Article

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