Skeletal stability in bimaxillary orthognathic surgery: P(L/DL)LA-resorbable versus titanium osteofixation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 703-721

  Landes, Constantin A ^a,b   Ballon, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; TITANIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CEPHALOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS MATERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CEPHALOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; JAW FIXATION TECHNIQUES; MALE; MALOCCLUSION, ANGLE CLASS II; MALOCCLUSION, ANGLE CLASS III; MANDIBULAR ADVANCEMENT; MAXILLA; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; POLYESTERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748285625     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000232985.05153.bf     Document Type: Article

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