Use of the Er:YAG laser for improved plating in maxillofacial surgery: Comparison of bone healing in laser and drill osteotomies

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-45

  Lewandrowski, Kai Uwe ^a   Lorente, Carol ^a   Schomacker, Kevin T ^a   Flotte, Thomas J ^a   Wilkes, Joseph W ^a   Deutsch, Thomas F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Er:YAG laser; facial bones; healing; laser osteotomy

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRILL; FACIAL BONE; HEALING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIMALS; BONE PLATES; BONE REMODELING; BONE RESORPTION; BONE SCREWS; ERBIUM; FACIAL BONES; HEAT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MANDIBLE; OSSEOINTEGRATION; OSTEOGENESIS; OSTEOTOMY; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0029840859     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:1<40::AID-LSM6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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