DO palatal implants really reduce snoring in long-term follow-up?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1000-1004

  Saylam, Guleser ^a,b   Korkmaz, Hakan ^a   Firat, Hikmet ^a   Tatar, Emel Çadalli ^a   Özdek, Ali ^a   Ardic, Sadik ^a  

^a DISKAPI YILDIRIM BEYAZIT TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Oxygen desaturation index; Palatal implant; Snoring; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; MALE; PAIN; PALATE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNORING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66349126276     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20137     Document Type: Article

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