Clinical assistant training in orthodontics - How effective is it?

British Dental Journal

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 448-452

  Stratford, N M ^a   Burden, D J ^b  

^a Waveney Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL CARE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; ORTHODONTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DENTAL MODELS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENERAL PRACTICE, DENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES, REMOVABLE; ORTHODONTICS; ORTHODONTICS, CORRECTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032499315     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4809655     Document Type: Article

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