Urban legends: Facts and myths in oral diseases

Oral Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 753-754

  Carrozzo, M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evidence based dentistry; Oral diseases; Oral medicine and pathology

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MERCURY; THIOMERSAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; AUTISM; EVIDENCE BASED DENTISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTOXICATION; LEUKOPLAKIA; LICHEN PLANUS; MOUTH DISEASE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NOTE; OROFACIAL GRANULOMATOSIS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; THRUSH; VACCINATION;

EID: 80054084021     PISSN: 1354523X     EISSN: 16010825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2011.01857.x     Document Type: Note

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