Self-rated oral health and associated factors in Brazilian elders
✍ Scribed by Marcos Pascoal Pattussi; Karen Glazer Peres; Antonio Fernando Boing; Marco Aurélio Peres; Juvenal Soares Dias Da Costa
- Book ID
- 109365345
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-5661
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