Evaluation of the mental foramen and accessory mental foramen in Turkish patients using cone-beam computed tomography images reconstructed from a volumetric rendering program

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 584-592

  Kalender, A ^a   Orhan, K ^a,b   Aksoy, U ^a  

^a NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

accessory mental foramen; cone beam computed tomography; prevalence; surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY MENTAL FORAMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL FORAMEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTWARE; TURKEY;

EID: 84861822701     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.21277     Document Type: Article

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