Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 102-107 , September 2007

Standard Operating Procedures Approach for the Implementation of the Evidence-based Dentistry Concept in Dental Practice

  • Clóvis M. Faggion Jr, DDS, Drmed.dent

      Affiliations

    • Private Practice, Florianópolis Brazil.
    • ,
  • Yu-Kang Tu, DDS, MSc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Periodontology, Leeds Dental Institute, and Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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 There was no external source of funding for the study and the authors have no conflict of interest of any sort related to the results of this study.

PII: S1532-3382(07)00096-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jebdp.2007.06.004

Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice
Volume 7, Issue 3 , Pages 102-107 , September 2007

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