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Patient care should be divided into 4 main phases of therapy, and today’s dental health team needs to be familiar with the components of each phase.

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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). Therapy. In: Non-Surgical Control of Periodontal Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46623-0_6

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