Studies on Masticatory Movements in the Patients with Temporomandibular Joint Pain-Dysfunction Syndrome
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The Temporomandibular Joint Pain Dysfunction Syndrome and The Orofacial Pain
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceeding of Japanese Society of Stomatognathic Function
سال: 1983
ISSN: 2185-4963,0911-8721
DOI: 10.7144/sgf1982.1.129