Clinical evaluation of marketed orthodontic products: are researchers behind the times? A meta-epidemiological study

Progress in Orthodontics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Seehra, Jadbinder ^a   Pandis, Nikolaos ^b   Fleming, Padhraig S ^c  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONFLICT; HEALTH; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MARKETING; META ANALYSIS; ORTHODONTIC ARCHWIRE; ORTHODONTIC BRACKET; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; ORTHODONTIC PROCEDURE; ORTHODONTICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; DENTAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

DENTAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MARKETING; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES; ORTHODONTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85019975524     PISSN: 17237785     EISSN: 21961042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40510-017-0168-y     Document Type: Article

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