Severe Third Molar Complications Including Death-Lessons from 100 Cases Requiring Hospitalization

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1700-1706

  Kunkel, Martin ^a   Kleis, Wilfried ^a   Morbach, Thomas ^a   Wagner, Wilfried ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MOLAR TOOTH; NERVE INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COST OF ILLNESS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR, THIRD; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERICORONITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 34547933823     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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