One Year Outcome of Damaged Lingual Nerve Repair Using a PGA-Collagen Tube: A Case Report

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1481-1484

  Seo, Kenji ^a   Inada, Yuji ^b   Terumitsu, Makoto ^c   Nakamura, Tatsuo ^d   Horiuchi, Katsuhiro ^e   Inada, Ikuhisa ^f   Someya, Genji ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Inada Hospital   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Nakatani Dental Clinic   (Japan)

^f Inada Dental Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN IMPLANT; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGEUSIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSESTHESIA; EATING; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; LINGUAL NERVE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMA; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOUCH; TRISMUS;

ADULT; COLLAGEN; DYSARTHRIA; EATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; LINGUAL NERVE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSTAGLANDINS A; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 44949090529     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2007.08.029     Document Type: Article

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