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Child abuse and neglect: implications for the dental profession
1Department of General Dentistry University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, USA.
Texas Dental Journal
|May 25, 1999
Abstract:
Dentists, as a group, have participated in the recognition and reporting of child maltreatment to a lesser degree than other health professionals, being either unaware of their legal responsibility to report or, when abuse or neglect is suspected, reluctant to do so.