The effects of gum-chewing therapy on salivation in stroke patients [14]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 867-869

  Kawasaka, Tetsuo ^a   Shimodozono, Megumi ^a   Ogata, Atsuko ^a   Kawahira, Kazumi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID;

ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GUM CHEWING THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; PAROTID GLAND; SALIVATION; SALIVATION DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TOOTH BRUSHING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEWING GUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SECRETION;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEWING GUM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA; SALIVATION;

EID: 33744990387     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00721.x     Document Type: Letter

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