Bleeding on probing: What does it mean?

General Dentistry

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-276

  Weinberg, Mea A ^a   Hassan, Hana ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GINGIVA BLEEDING; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; PERIODONTICS;

GINGIVAL HEMORRHAGE; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; PERIODONTAL INDEX;

EID: 84864029728     PISSN: 03636771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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