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Assuring Dental Hygiene Clinical Competence for Licensure: A National Survey of Dental Hygiene Program Directors

Lucinda M. Fleckner and Dorothy J. Rowe
American Dental Hygienists' Association February 2015, 89 (1) 26-33;
Lucinda M. Fleckner
RDH, MS
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