Relationships Between Surgical Difficulty and Postoperative Pain in Lower Third Molar Extractions

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 979-983

  Lago Méndez, Lucía ^a   Diniz Freitas, Márcio ^a   Senra Rivera, Carmen ^a   Gude Sampedro, Francisco ^a   Gándara Rey, José Manuel ^a   García García, Abel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORCEPS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUTURE; TOOTH EXTRACTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR, THIRD; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247139668     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2006.06.281     Document Type: Article

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