An overview of delayed passive eruption

M A Weinberg1, R N Eskow

  • 1Division of Surgical Sciences, Department of Periodontics, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, New York, USA.

Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry (Jamesburg, N.J. : 1995)
|February 24, 2001
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