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Oral Care in the Long-Term Care of Older Patients: How Can the Dental Hygienist Meet the Need?

Tracee S. Dahm, Ann Bruhn and Margaret LeMaster
American Dental Hygienists' Association August 2015, 89 (4) 229-237;
Tracee S. Dahm
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