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European Journal of Orthodontics
|September 20, 2014
Abstract:
The feasibility of generalizing and extrapolating the results of the RCT assessing the necessity of a bonding stage to the routine clinical situation is discussed in this commentary. The lack of difference in failure rate between the two procedures followed may not receive the dimensions of a directive to alter a step of the bonding process, before other factors related to the performance of the materials are considered.
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