Oral rehabilitation following treatment for oral cancer

Periodontology 2000

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-117

  Pace Balzan, Adrian ^a   Shaw, Richard J ^a   Butterworth, Chris ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; EDENTULOUSNESS; ESTHETICS; FACE; HUMAN; MASTICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION; SPEECH; SWALLOWING; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

DEGLUTITION; DENTAL PROSTHESIS DESIGN; ESTHETICS; FACE; HUMANS; JAW, EDENTULOUS; MASTICATION; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MOUTH REHABILITATION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PALATAL OBTURATORS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPEECH;

EID: 79960669766     PISSN: 09066713     EISSN: 16000757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0757.2011.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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