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Facial fractures and bone healing in the geriatric patient
1Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
A discussion of the biology of bone healing serves as the basis for a review of the clinical management of maxillofacial skeletal injury in the geriatric patient. Age-related changes in the facial skeleton and fractures of the edentulous mandible are described in detail.