Use of lag screws for the management of mandibular trauma

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 164-167

  Zachariades, Nicholas ^a   Mezitis, Michael ^a   Papademetriou, Ioannis ^a   Kifissia, ^a   Oral, Greece ^a   Clinic, Maxillofacial ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CHILD; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRISMUS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CHILD; CICATRIX; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRISMUS;

EID: 0030075739     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(96)80407-0     Document Type: Article

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