Electrosurgery in dentistry

Quintessence International

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 649-654

  Gnanasekhar, Johnson David ^a,b   Al Duwairi, Yousef Saleh ^a  

^a Special Centre for the Advancement of Dental Services   (Kuwait)

^b NONE   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Current; Electrosurgery; Waveform; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROSURGERY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORAL SURGERY; WOUND HEALING;

DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROSURGERY; HUMANS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032177992     PISSN: 00336572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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