Intracapsular Condylar Fracture of the Mandible: Our Classification and Open Treatment Experience

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1672-1679

  He, Dongmei ^a   Yang, Chi ^a   Chen, Minjie ^a   Jiang, Bin ^a   Wang, Baoli ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHINA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACAPSULAR CONDYLAR FRACTURE OF THE MANDIBLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MOUTH; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENTAL OCCLUSION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISLOCATIONS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; INFANT; JOINT CAPSULE; MALE; MANDIBULAR CONDYLE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SOUND; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650467376     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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