Journal of Dentistry
Volume 34, Issue 10 , Pages 796-801 , November 2006

Can general dentists produce successful implant overdentures with minimal training?

  • Shahrokh Esfandiari

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • ,
  • James P. Lund

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Université de Montréal, Canada
    • ,
  • J. Mark Thomason

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • School of Dental Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    • ,
  • Eric Dufresne

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • ,
  • Taira Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Nihon University School of Dentistry, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
    • ,
  • Melanie Dubois

      Affiliations

    • Faculté de Médicine Dentaire, Université de Montréal, Canada
    • ,
  • Jocelyne S. Feine

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, 3640 University St., Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2. Tel.: +1 514 398 7203x00052; fax: +1 514 398 7220.

Received 11 November 2005 ,Revised 3 March 2006 ,Accepted 7 March 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2006.03.004

Journal of Dentistry
Volume 34, Issue 10 , Pages 796-801 , November 2006

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