Psychometric properties of Greek versions of the Modified Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) and the Dental Fear Survey (DFS)

BMC Oral Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Coolidge, Trilby ^a   Arapostathis, Konstantinos Nikolaos ^b   Emmanouil, Dimitris ^c   Dabarakis, Nikolaos ^b   Patrikiou, Antonis ^b   Economides, Nikolaos ^b   Kotsanos, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 54349093137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-8-29     Document Type: Article

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