Rehabilitation after mandibular reconstruction with fibula free-flap: clinical outcome and quality of life assessment

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1009-1013

  Hundepool, A C ^a   Dumans, A G ^a   Hofer, S O P ^a,b   Fokkens, N J W ^a   Rayat, S S ^a   van der Meij, E H ^a   Schepman, K P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

dental implants; free fibula flap; mandibular reconstruction; outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMELOBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER REHABILITATION; CHILD; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DENTAL REHABILITATION; DENTURE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FIBULA FREE FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; DENTAL IMPLANTS; DENTAL PROSTHESIS, IMPLANT-SUPPORTED; FEMALE; FIBULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR DISEASES; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MANDIBULAR PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55249102366     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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