Resorbable plate osteosynthesis of sagittal split osteotomies with major bone movement

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1828-1840

  Landes, Constantin A ^a   Kriener, Susanne ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; POLYGLACTIN; WATER; LACTIC ACID; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCISION; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HEALTH CARE COST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OSTEOTOMY; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN INCISION; SOFT TISSUE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; JAW; JAW MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; JAW; JAW ABNORMALITIES; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS;

EID: 0038077262     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000056867.28731.0E     Document Type: Article

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