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Study on treatment of condylar process fractures of the mandible
- Source :
- Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger. 189:377-383
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2007.
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Abstract
- Summary Treatment of mandibular condylar process fractures may be conservative or surgical. Both treatment approaches aim to reconstruct the articulating joint surfaces in a physiological position to the discoligamentary structures. The study comprised 1812 patients of Wuerzburg University who presented with a fracture of the mandibular condylar process between 1981 and 2001. Besides conservative management options, surgical interventions using mini-plate osteosynthesis and the Wuerzburg lag screw plate were studied for post-treatment changes. Statistical analysis revealed that surgical osteosynthesis is superior to merely conservative therapy in terms of post-treatment dysgnathic severity. Hence, surgical osteosynthesis is advocated especially in patients with high condylar fractures or dislocated fractures in order to ideally achieve ‘restitutio ad integrum’.
- Subjects :
- Male
Jaw Fractures
Dentistry
Functional Laterality
Condyle
Lag screw
stomatognathic system
Mandibular Fractures
Humans
Medicine
Statistical analysis
In patient
Child
Process (anatomy)
Retrospective Studies
Orthodontics
Osteosynthesis
Skull Fractures
business.industry
Mandibular Condyle
Mandible
General Medicine
Treatment Outcome
Female
Anatomy
business
Bone Plates
Surgical interventions
Follow-Up Studies
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09409602
- Volume :
- 189
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....223caa3656d1f3f79c7676fc69ef8a6b