Perceptions and Challenges of Primary Health Care Dental-Surgeons in the Early Diagnosis of Oral Cancer

Bárbara Campo Dall'Orto Martins Mariana Aguiar Gomes Tahyná Duda Deps Liliana Aparecida Pimenta-Barros Daniel Cohen Anke Bergmann Orcid

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The low resoluteness of primary health care in the early diagnosis of oral cancer can be associated with lack of practical training and insufficient institutional support, as demonstrated in this cross-sectional study with dental-surgeons working in municipalities of a state in southeastern Brazil.

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