Harmonic analysis of mandibular form and symmetry with computerized tomographic views.

Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 112-117

  Ferrario, Virgilio F ^a   Sforza, Chiarella ^a   Tartaglia, Gianluca M ^a   Fugazzola, Paolo ^a   Serrao, Graziano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MANDIBLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033630635     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(00)80025-6     Document Type: Article

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