AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 7 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2023.39936
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Post-operative Care for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients: A Concerning Reality

Rahul Anand1 Gargi S. Sarode1 Namrata Sengupta1 Sachin C. Sarode1,2
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1 Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Dr DY Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India
2 Dr DY Patil Unitech Society’s, Dr DY Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Pimpri Pune, India
EJMO 2023, 7(4), 404–406; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2023.39936
Submitted: 17 November 2023 | Accepted: 29 November 2023 | Published: 29 December 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Conflict of interest
None declared.
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