Office placement of skeletal anchorage devices.

Atlas Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine, 263 Farmington Avenue, Room L-7073, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.

Published: September 2013

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