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Designing CAD/CAM Surgical Guides for Maxillary Reconstruction Using an In-house Approach
Published on: August 24, 2018
So you want to be ... a maxillofacial surgeon
Abstract:
Maxillofacial surgery (or to give the speciality its full title oral and maxillofacial surgery) has long had a veil of mystery associated with it. Maxillofacial surgical trainees were seen as a rare breed of people who did a dental degree followed by a medical degree before embarking on their surgical training. However, changes have been afoot for several years and there are now increasing numbers of people in the speciality whose primary qualification is medicine with a secondary degree in dentistry.
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