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Systematic Assessment of Mammalian Skull Specimens for Dental and Temporomandibular Joint Pathology
Published on: August 22, 2022
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1Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, London, UK. s.gelbier@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
This special issue of Dental Historian represents an expanded version of a lecture given to the annual conference of the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry in Liverpool on 8 October 2006. It was felt that such a version would provide a helpful and informative basis for other researchers interested in these important members of the dental profession in the United Kingdom.
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