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Oral Biofilm Sampling for Microbiome Analysis in Healthy Children
Published on: December 31, 2017
Microbiological diagnostics in periodontics: biological significance and clinical validity
Arie J van Winkelhoff1, Edwin G Winkel
1Department of Oral Microbiology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam , Universiteit van Amsterdam and Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Periodontology 2000
|September 2, 2005
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