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Pin Zhou1,2, Yaming Chen1,3, Jinglu Zhang1,3

  • 1a Department of General Dentistry , Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University , Nanjing , China.

Acta Odontologica Scandinavica
|September 21, 2017
PubMed
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Keywords:
Intraoral modeloral mucosapressure pain thresholdquantitative sensory testing

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