Does Computed Tomographic Assessment of Inferior Alveolar Canal Cortical Integrity Predict Nerve Exposure During Third Molar Surgery?

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1296-1303

  Susarla, Srinivas M ^a   Sidhu, Harlyn K ^b   Avery, Laura L ^c   Dodson, Thomas B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALVEOLAR BONE; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLAR, THIRD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOOTH EXTRACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952292974     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2010.01.021     Document Type: Article

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