AN APPRAISAL OF THE NECESSITY FOR RADIOGRAPHS IN CLINICAL TRIALS OF CARIES-INHIBITORY AGENTS*
J. Earl Williams
**Special Projects and Training Officer, Dental Division, Tennessee Department of Health, Cordell Hull Building, Nashville. 37219
Search for more papers by this authorCharles J. Donnelly
*** Chief, Research Grants' Program, Division of Dental Heath, U. S. Public Health Service, 8120 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, Maryland. 20014.
Search for more papers by this authorJohn T. Fulton
Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 27514.
Search for more papers by this authorJ. Earl Williams
**Special Projects and Training Officer, Dental Division, Tennessee Department of Health, Cordell Hull Building, Nashville. 37219
Search for more papers by this authorCharles J. Donnelly
*** Chief, Research Grants' Program, Division of Dental Heath, U. S. Public Health Service, 8120 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, Maryland. 20014.
Search for more papers by this authorJohn T. Fulton
Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 27514.
Search for more papers by this author*An appraisal presented at Dallas, Texas, November 12, 1966, by the Committee on Research of the American Association of Public Health Dentists.
Abstract
This report is the first to be published from the four study-groups of 1966.
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