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Dental arch dimensions, form and tooth size ratio among a Saudi sample

Haidi Omar, Manar Alhajrasi, Nayef Felemban and Ali Hassan
Saudi Medical Journal January 2018, 39 (1) 86-91; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.1.21035
Haidi Omar
From the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (Omar), Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Science, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Jeddah Specialty Dental Center (Alhajrasi), Ministry of Health, from the Department of Orthodontics (Hassan), Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and from the Department of Preventive Dentistry (Felemban), Faculty of Dentistry, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Manar Alhajrasi
From the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (Omar), Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Science, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Jeddah Specialty Dental Center (Alhajrasi), Ministry of Health, from the Department of Orthodontics (Hassan), Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and from the Department of Preventive Dentistry (Felemban), Faculty of Dentistry, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nayef Felemban
From the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (Omar), Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Science, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Jeddah Specialty Dental Center (Alhajrasi), Ministry of Health, from the Department of Orthodontics (Hassan), Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and from the Department of Preventive Dentistry (Felemban), Faculty of Dentistry, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ali Hassan
From the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (Omar), Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Science, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; from Jeddah Specialty Dental Center (Alhajrasi), Ministry of Health, from the Department of Orthodontics (Hassan), Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and from the Department of Preventive Dentistry (Felemban), Faculty of Dentistry, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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