Surfing for mouth guards: Assessing quality of online information

Dental Traumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 334-343

  Magunacelaya, Macarena B ^a   Glendor, Ulf ^b  

^a Private Dental Health Clinic   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MOUTH PROTECTOR; STANDARD;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MOUTH PROTECTORS;

EID: 80052668259     PISSN: 16004469     EISSN: 16009657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-9657.2011.01017.x     Document Type: Article

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