Chewing ability of the long-term hospitalized elderly

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 260-264

  Peltola, Petteri ^a   Vehkalahti, Miira M ^b  

^a Helsinki City Health Department   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chewing ability; Eichner Index; Long term patient; Masticatory capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344437174     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2005.tb01659.x     Document Type: Article

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