Agreement between practitioners concerning removal of asymptomatic third molars

Community Dental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 129-132

  Kostopoulou, Olga ^a   Brickley, Mark R ^a   Shepherd, Jonathan P ^a   Knutsson, Kerstin ^b   Rohlin, Madeleine ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Third molar; Tooth extraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR TOOTH; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORAL SURGERY; STATISTICS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; DENTISTS; DENTISTS, WOMEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR, THIRD; OBSERVER VARIATION; SURGERY, ORAL; TOOTH EXTRACTION; WALES;

EID: 0031230620     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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