Angle-splitting ostectomy for reducing the width of the lower face

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1831-1839

  Deguchi, Masami ^a   Iio, Yoshimi ^b   Kobayashi, Kiyofumi ^b   Shirakabe, Takehiro ^b  

^a Osaka Shirakabe Institute   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEPHALOMETRY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ESTHETICS; FACE; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030918104     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199706000-00005     Document Type: Article

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