Smears of oral epithelial cells from 20 male students were compared by phase microscopy and by the Papanicotaou technic to determine degrees of cornification. Cell size and numbers of nucleated and nonnucleated cells were dependable criteria for determining degrees of cornification by phase microscopy.
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