The Dental Arch Form Revisited

Angle Orthodontist

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 386-389

  Noroozi, Hassan ^a,b   Nik, Tahereh Hosseinzadeh ^a   Saeeda, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Arch form; Beta function; Correlation coefficient; Equation; Formula; Polynomial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DENTAL CARE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; REFERENCE VALUE; TOOTH ARCH;

DENTAL ARCH; DENTAL MODELS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0035487240     PISSN: 00033219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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