Inferior alveolar nerve injury related to mandibular third molar surgery: An unusual case presentation

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

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 358-361

  Drage, Nicholas A ^a,b   Renton, Tara ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MOLAR TOOTH; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH ROOT;

ADULT; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MOLAR, THIRD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH CROWN; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH ROOT; TOOTH, IMPACTED;

EID: 0036512866     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.120895     Document Type: Article

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