Dental Implant Maintenance for the Oral Healthcare Team

Penny Hatzimanolakis1, Ioannis Tsourounakis2, Anastasia Kelekis-Cholakis3

  • 1Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry (Jamesburg, N.J. : 1995)
|September 4, 2019
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