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Distinguishing Mars from Venus: emergence of gender biology differences in oral health and systemic disease.
Compendium of continuing education in dentistry (Jamesburg, N.J. : 1995) - 1 Oct 2002
Slavkin Harold C
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We are learning to appreciate and understand that men and women have different genes and gene products (proteins), biochemistry and physiology, body weights and distribution of fats, and a few different tissues and organs. In such comparisons, we discover that women have a different prevalence for many oral and systemic diseases and disorders, and often illustrate differences in responses to disease mechanisms as...
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