Treatment imprudence leading to missed tooth fragment

Pranamee Barua1, Seema Chaudhary, Harsimran Kaur

  • 1Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. pranamee.barua@gmail.com

BMJ Case Reports
|April 23, 2013
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