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Simone Guimarães Farias Gomes1, William Custódio, Altair Antoninha Del Bel Cury

  • 1Department of Prosthodontics and Periodontology, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

The International Journal of Prosthodontics
|May 8, 2009
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