Nigella sativa and its active constituent thymoquinone in oral health

Safia A. AlAttas; Fat’heya M. Zahran; Shereen A. Turkistany

doi:10.15537/smj.2016.3.13006

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Nigella sativa and its active constituent thymoquinone in oral health

Safia A. AlAttas, Fat’heya M. Zahran and Shereen A. Turkistany

Saudi Medical Journal March 2016, 37 (3) 235-244; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.13006

Safia A. AlAttas

From the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences (Al-Attas, Zahran), Faculty of Dentistry, the Centre of Innovation in Personalized Medicine (Turkistany), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

MS, FAAOM

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Fat’heya M. Zahran

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Shereen A. Turkistany

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vol. 37 no. 3 235-244

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Safia A. AlAttas, MS, FAAOM ⇑,
Fat’heya M. Zahran, MS, PhD and
Shereen A. Turkistany, BD, MS

From the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences (Al-Attas, Zahran), Faculty of Dentistry, the Centre of Innovation in Personalized Medicine (Turkistany), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Professor Safia A. AlAttas, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: salattass{at}kau.edu.sa

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