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Health risk assessment of exposure to formaldehyde in dental materials

  • Maya Lyapina EMAIL logo , Assya Krasteva , Maria Dencheva , Mariana Tzekova , Mariela Deliverska and Angelina Kisselova-Yaneva
From the journal Open Medicine

Abstract

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