Clinical Assessment of the Relationship Between the Third Molar and the Inferior Alveolar Canal Using Panoramic Images and Computed Tomography

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2308-2313

  Nakamori, Kenji ^a   Fujiwara, Kumiko ^b   Miyazaki, Akihiro ^a   Tomihara, Kei ^a   Tsuji, Manabu ^a   Nakai, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Michifuri, Yoshitaka ^a   Suzuki, Rina ^a   Komai, Kiyoto ^a   Shimanishi, Makoto ^a   Hiratsuka, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; NERVE INJURY; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOOTH ROOT CANAL; TOOTH SOCKET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIP; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR, THIRD; PARESTHESIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 53649094912     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2008.06.042     Document Type: Article

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