Maturitas
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 126-131 , 20 September 2006

Tooth count in elderly women in relation to their skeletal status

  • Bogna Drozdzowska

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathomorphology in Zabrze, Silesian School of Medicine in Katowice, 3 Maja 13/15 Street, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +48 32 2714994; fax: +48 32 2714994.
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  • Wojciech Pluskiewicz

      Affiliations

    • Metabolic Bone Diseases Unit, Department and Clinic of Internal Diseases, Diabetology and Nephrology, Silesian School of Medicine in Katowice, Zabrze, Poland
    • ,
  • Mariusz Michno

      Affiliations

    • NZOZ, Rybnik, Poland

Received 14 March 2005 ,Revised 14 October 2005 ,Accepted 25 October 2005.

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PII: S0378-5122(05)00305-1

doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2005.10.011

Maturitas
Volume 55, Issue 2 , Pages 126-131 , 20 September 2006

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