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Srinivas M Susarla¹, Edward W Swanson¹, Zachary S Peacock¹

¹Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.

|December 20, 2014

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Keywords:

Facial trauma intermaxillary fixation malocclusion mandibular fracture maxillofacial injury rigid fixation

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