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Dental surgery term - HELP
Posted: Feb 04, 2014
It is for a broken mandible: "A "blue cheese" retractor was placed to aid visualization."
TIA
Dental surgery term - anon
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Sorry, hate dental reports. All I could find was BlueSeal cheeck retractor to aid visualization
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