Split-mouth designs in orthodontics: An overview with applications to orthodontic clinical trials

European Journal of Orthodontics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 783-789

  Pandis, Nikolaos ^a   Walsh, Tanya ^b   Polychronopoulou, Argy ^c   Katsaros, Christos ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH; ORTHODONTICS; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MOUTH; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE DESIGN;

EID: 84887423900     PISSN: 01415387     EISSN: 14602210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejo/cjs108     Document Type: Review

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