Dental health, 'dental tourism' and travellers

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 123-124

  Leggat, Peter ^a,b   Kedjarune, Ureporn ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Dental; Dental tourism; Emergencies; Health; Travellers

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL HEALTH; EDITORIAL; ENDODONTICS; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INSURANCE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOUTH HYGIENE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PREEMPLOYMENT MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH FILLING; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH ROOT CANAL; TOURISM; TRAVEL;

DENTISTRY; HUMANS; INSURANCE; INSURANCE COVERAGE; ORAL HEALTH; TRAVEL;

EID: 67349248420     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.02.001     Document Type: Editorial

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