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Beware the tooth fairy
  1. W D Carroll,
  2. T M Lo
  1. Department of Child Health, City General Hospital, Stoke on Trent, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr W D Carroll

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.19.4.360

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