Postoperative stability after sagittal split ramus osteotomy with condylar-positioning appliance and screw fixation: Asymmetric versus symmetric cases

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

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 532-536

  Harada, Kiyoshi ^a   Ono, Jun ^a   Okada, Yasuhiro ^a   Nagura, Hideaki ^a   Enomoto, Shoji ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE CONDYLE; ORAL SURGERY; PROGNATHIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE SCREWS; CEPHALOMETRY; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAW FIXATION TECHNIQUES; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR CONDYLE; PROGNATHISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031132898     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(97)90116-5     Document Type: Article

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