Management of the fractured edentulous atrophic mandible

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Nasser, Mona ^a   Fedorowicz, Z ^b   Ebadifar, A ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aged; Atrophy; Fracture fixation *methods ; Humans; Mandible pathology ; Mandibular fractures *therapy ; Middle aged; Mouth, edentulous *complications

Indexed keywords

BONE ATROPHY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDENTULOUSNESS; ELDERLY CARE; EMBASE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MEDLINE; OPEN REDUCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 44949097443     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006087.pub2     Document Type: Review

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