Manifestations of Malnutrition
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Oral manifestations of malnutrition I. The effect of vitamins.
The tissues of the mouth often show earlier signs of nutritional disturbances than does the skin, other body tissues because stratified squamous epithelial lining of the oral cavity (with the exception of that covering the gums and palatal tissues) is not keratinized and changes in the sub-cpithelial tissues and resultant inflammatory reactions become more prominent. Oral tissues are more frequ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1947
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4524.470