Deciding about patients' requests for extraction: Ethical and legal guidelines

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-203

  Broers, Dyonne L M ^a   Brands, Wolter G ^b   Welie, Jos V M ^c   De Jongh, Ad ^a,d  

^a Center for Special Care in Dentistry   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77949304180     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2010.0139     Document Type: Article

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