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Severe localised periodontitis in an adult: initiation by orthodontic rubber bands
The New Zealand Dental Journal
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
An adult patient presented with advanced periodontitis around teeth 11 and 21. This was found to have been caused by the patient placing orthodontic bands 1 year previously around these teeth to close a mid-line diastema.

