Treatment of atrophic mandibular fractures based on the degree of atrophy - Experience with different plating systems: A retrospective study

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 230-234

  Wittwer, Gert ^a   Adeyemo, Wasiu Lanre ^a   Turhani, Dritan ^a   Ploder, Oliver ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INFECTION; INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30644458821     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2005.10.025     Document Type: Article

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