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Keyes′ technique′
(kīz),USA pronunciation
- Dentistrya system of treating periodontal diseases by eliminating specific disease-related microorganisms, primarily through nonsurgical therapy that is regulated and adjusted in accordance with microscopic or cultural findings in subgingival plaque specimens.
- after U.south, southern. dentist Paul Keyes, who devised it