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Cast metal cap splint use for immobilisation of mandibular fracture
Author(s) -
Yuffa A.D.,
Bruzual L.M.,
Hammond D.,
Whear N.M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
oral surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.156
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1752-248X
pISSN - 1752-2471
DOI - 10.1111/ors.12124
Subject(s) - medicine , splints , splint (medicine) , jaw fracture , fixation (population genetics) , reduction (mathematics) , dentistry , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , mandibular fracture , orthodontics , oral and maxillofacial surgery , population , botany , geometry , mathematics , environmental health , biology , genus
Use of cast metal cap splints in a patient with multiple fractures to sphenoid, zygoma, orbital floor and mandible unable to receive surgical treatment for reduction and fixation of fractured segments due to cervical spine fractures; technique considered in disuse by many.