Comparison of skeletal and soft-tissue changes following unilateral mandibular distraction osteogenesis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1751-1759

  Altug Atac, Ayse T ^a   Grayson, Barry H ^b   McCarthy, Joseph G ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL MICROSOMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; UNILATERAL MANDIBULAR DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; FACIAL ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROSTOMIA; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 43149122010     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31816aa003     Document Type: Article

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