Lingual vascular canals of the mandible: The risk of bleeding complications during implant procedures

Implant Dentistry

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-138

  Longoni, Salvatore ^a,c   Sartori, Matteo ^a   Braun, Marc ^b   Bravetti, Pierre ^b   Lapi, Antonio ^c   Baldoni, Marco ^a   Tredici, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1 France ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial supply; Complications; Computed tomography; Dental implants; Intraoral hematoma; Mandible anatomy; Oral surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJURY; MANDIBLE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIES; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; DENTAL IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250304984     PISSN: 10566163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ID.0b013e31805009d5     Document Type: Article

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