Relative displacement resistance of standard and low-profile bone plates in experimental mandibular angle fractures

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

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 427-432

  Nissenbaum, Mark ^a   Lownie, Madeline ^a   Cleaton Jones, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b WITS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE NONUNION; INSTRUMENTATION; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MASTICATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAPIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BITE FORCE; BONE PLATES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; PAPIO; TITANIUM;

EID: 0031113104     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(97)90140-2     Document Type: Article

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