Facial asymmetry: Etiology, evaluation, and management

Chang Gung Medical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-351

  Cheong, You Wei ^a   Lo, Lun Jou ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Facial asymmetry; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CAUCASIAN; CLEFT LIP PALATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNICITY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE MALFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HEMIFACIAL MICROSOMIA; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; ORTHODONTICS; ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY; OSTEOTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLAGIOCEPHALY; REVIEW; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR ANKYLOSIS; TOOTH OCCLUSION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS; TORTICOLLIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

FACIAL ASYMMETRY; HUMANS; ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION;

EID: 80052685109     PISSN: 20720939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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