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Mamoru Murakami1, Yasuhiro Nishi, Yuji Kamashita

  • 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, Field of Oral and Maxillofacial Rehabilitation, Course for Advanced Therapeutics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan. kaku@dentb.hal.kagoshima-u.ac.jp

Journal of Prosthodontic Research
|January 20, 2010
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