Dental Unit Waterline Contamination and Its Possible Implications During Periodontal Surgery
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Periodontology
- Vol. 72 (3) , 393-400
- https://doi.org/10.1902/jop.2001.72.3.393
Abstract
Background: Dental unit waterline contamination has become a concern to clinical dentistry. This concern arises from the fact that bacteria sloughed from established biofilms in dental unit waterline...Keywords
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