Mountainbiking - A dangerous sport: Comparison with bicycling on oral and maxillofacial trauma

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 188-191

  Gassner, Robert J ^a   Tuli, Tarkan ^b   Emshoff, Rüdiger ^b   Waldhart, Ernst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bicycling; Epidemiology; Mandibular fractures; Maxillofacial trauma; Sports injuries; Tooth injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BICYCLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE INJURY; FACIAL BONE; FALLING; HUMAN; INJURY; JAW FRACTURE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICS; TOOTH INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRIA; BICYCLING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACIAL BONES; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; JAW FRACTURES; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SKULL FRACTURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH INJURIES;

EID: 0033137310     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0020.1999.283280307.x     Document Type: Review

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