Recruiting Rural Dentally — Avoidant Adolescents into an Intervention Study
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عنوان ژورنال: European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1818-6300,1996-9805
DOI: 10.1007/bf03262688