DETERMINING DENTAL CHECKUP FREQUENCY
The Journal of the American Dental AssociationPublished 1 May 1999
Marilyn W. Woolfolk, W. Paul Lang, Wenche S. Borgnakke, George W. Taylor, David L. Ronis, Linda Nyquist
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Dental health professionals should consider the correlates of dental checkup frequency identified in this study and the usefulness of proposed strategies to increase and sustain regular preventive visitation patterns in their own patient populations.
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Dental health professionals should consider the correlates of dental checkup frequency identified in this study and the usefulness of proposed strategies to increase and sustain regular preventive visitation patterns in their own patient populations.
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