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Instrumentation for Diagnosis and Basic Treatment of Gingivitis/Periodontitis

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How the instrument is held. There are a number of techniques to grasp an instrument. They include the pen grasp, modified pen grasp, and the palm and thumb grasp:

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  1. Department of Periodontology, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Paul A. Levi Jr., Y. Natalie Jeong, Robert J. Rudy & Daniel K. Coleman

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Levi, P.A., Jeong, Y.N., Rudy, R.J., Coleman, D.K. (2016). Instrumentation for Diagnosis and Basic Treatment of Gingivitis/Periodontitis. In: Non-Surgical Control of Periodontal Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46623-0_5

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