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Occlusion in prosthodontics

Iven Klineberg¹

¹Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, Professorial Unit, Sydney, Australia. ivenk@mail.usyd.edu.au

The International Journal of Prosthodontics

|January 26, 2010

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