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8 Appendix
A Patient Record Form
B Clinical Record Form
C Standard curve - PERIOTRON®
Patient Record Form
Clinical Record Form
Standard curve -Fixed volumes of serum are recorded. A 4th order polynomial plot is fitted to the data points
