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Diagnosis, Management of Medication-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Bone

Alessandro Villa, DDS, PhD, MPH, & Sook Bin Woo, DMD, MMSc  |  Issue: October 2015  |  

Sook Bin Woo, DMD, MMSc, is an associate surgeon in the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an associate professor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston.

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