Dental academia, commercialism, and the rise of the "institutes": where have we gone wrong?

J Esthet Restor Dent

Department of Operative Dentistry, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450, USA.

Published: May 2007

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