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Efficacy of Miswak toothpaste and mouthwash on cariogenic bacteria

Samim A. Al-Dabbagh, Huda J. Qasim and Nadia A. Al-Derzi
Saudi Medical Journal September 2016, 37 (9) 1009-1014; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.15855
Samim A. Al-Dabbagh
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Al-Dabbagh), Microbiology (Al-Derzi), College of Medicine, University of Duhok, and the Department of Dentistry (Qasim), Duhok General Health Directorate, Kurdistan region, Iraq
D.Phil, FFPH
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Huda J. Qasim
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Al-Dabbagh), Microbiology (Al-Derzi), College of Medicine, University of Duhok, and the Department of Dentistry (Qasim), Duhok General Health Directorate, Kurdistan region, Iraq
BDS, MSc
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Nadia A. Al-Derzi
From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Al-Dabbagh), Microbiology (Al-Derzi), College of Medicine, University of Duhok, and the Department of Dentistry (Qasim), Duhok General Health Directorate, Kurdistan region, Iraq
MBChB, MSC
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vol. 37 no. 9 1009-1014
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.15855
PubMed 
27570858

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 31, 2016
  • Accepted June 22, 2016
  • Published online September 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Samim A. Al-Dabbagh, D.Phil, FFPH⇑,
  2. Huda J. Qasim, BDS, MSc and
  3. Nadia A. Al-Derzi, MBChB, MSC
  1. From the Departments of Family and Community Medicine (Al-Dabbagh), Microbiology (Al-Derzi), College of Medicine, University of Duhok, and the Department of Dentistry (Qasim), Duhok General Health Directorate, Kurdistan region, Iraq
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Prof. Samim A. Al-Dabbagh, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. E-mail: samimaldabbagh{at}yahoo.com
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