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The Dental Hygiene Faculty Shortage: Causes, Solutions and Recruitment Tactics

Elizabeth Carr, Rachel Ennis and Laura Baus
American Dental Hygienists' Association September 2010, 84 (4) 165-169;
Elizabeth Carr
RDH, BS
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