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Gustatory function after third molar extraction

D M Shafer1, M E Frank, J F Gent

  • 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington 06030-3705, USA.

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics
|May 4, 1999
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